How to format your references using the Computers and Electronics in Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Kyriacou, C.P., 2009. Physiology. Unraveling traveling. Science 325, 1629–1630.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rey, G., Reddy, A.B., 2013. Physiology. Rhythmic respiration. Science 342, 570–571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halevy, I., Peters, S.E., Fischer, W.W., 2012. Sulfate burial constraints on the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle. Science 337, 331–334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Winter, S.E., Thiennimitr, P., Winter, M.G., Butler, B.P., Huseby, D.L., Crawford, R.W., Russell, J.M., Bevins, C.L., Adams, L.G., Tsolis, R.M., Roth, J.R., Bäumler, A.J., 2010. Gut inflammation provides a respiratory electron acceptor for Salmonella. Nature 467, 426–429.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Baker, H.K., Martin, G.S., 2011. Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Takayasu, M., Watanabe, T., Takayasu, H. (Eds.), 2010. Econophysics Approaches to Large-Scale Business Data and Financial Crisis. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Visscher, M.O., Hoath, S.B., 2006. Diaper Dermatitis, in: Chew, A.-L., Maibach, H.I. (Eds.), Irritant Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–51.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Wet Weather May Genuinely Make Chronic Pain Worse [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1993. High-Speed Ground Transportation: Issues Affecting Development in the United States (No. RCED-94-29). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Kramer, J.A., 2010. Accurate Localization Given Uncertain Sensors (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Pilon, M., 2014. Skating With a Smile, No Matter What. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kyriacou, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kyriacou, 2009; Rey and Reddy, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Rey and Reddy, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Winter et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Abbreviation	Comput. Electron. Agric.
ISSN (print)	0168-1699
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Forestry Horticulture Computer Science Applications