How to format your references using the Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food. 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

Bloom, P., 2010. How do morals change? Nature 464, 490.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luzzatto, L., Notaro, R., 2001. Malaria. Protecting against bad air. Science 293, 442–443.

A journal article with 3 authors

Babu, M.M., Kriwacki, R.W., Pappu, R.V., 2012. Structural biology. Versatility from protein disorder. Science 337, 1460–1461.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pashkin, Y.A., Yamamoto, T., Astafiev, O., Nakamura, Y., Averin, D.V., Tsai, J.S., 2003. Quantum oscillations in two coupled charge qubits. Nature 421, 823–826.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society, 2012. Recommendations for Design and Analysis of Earth Structures using Geosynthetic Reinforcements - EBGEO. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Rasch, P.J. (Ed.), 2012. Climate Change Modeling Methodology: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, I., Jeong, O., Kang, S., 2011. Study on Emergency Services for VoIP Based on IP Network vs. Domestic Emergency Network, in: Lee, G., Howard, D., Ślęzak, D. (Eds.), Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology: 5th International Conference, ICHIT 2011, Daejeon, Korea, September 22-24, 2011. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–38.

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 Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. This Super-Realistic 3D Printed Body Is Helping Train Surgeons [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, 2001. Human Capital: Building the Information Technology Workforce to Achieve Results (No. GAO-01-1007T). 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

Rozas, K.N., 2014. Searching for Reel Consequences: A Content Analysis of Risk Behaviors, Gender and Character Consequences in PG-13 Movie Trailers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Hubbard, B., 2017. 21 Killed in Series of Car Bomb Blasts in Syria’s Capital. New York Times A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bloom, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bloom, 2010; Luzzatto and Notaro, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Luzzatto and Notaro, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Pashkin et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food
Abbreviation	Eng. Agric. Environ. Food
ISSN (print)	1881-8366
Scope	Food Science General Chemical Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering