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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
McDowell, N., 2002. Lords blast red tape in animal experiments. Nature 418, 358.
A journal article with 2 authors
Marcus, A., Oransky, I., 2011. Science publishing: The paper is not sacred. Nature 480, 449–450.
A journal article with 3 authors
Lim, H.S., Rim, Y.S., Kim, H.J., 2014. Photoresist-free fully self-patterned transparent amorphous oxide thin-film transistors obtained by sol-gel process. Sci. Rep. 4, 4544.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Huang, W., Ma, K., Zhang, J., Qatanani, M., Cuvillier, J., Liu, J., Dong, B., Huang, X., Moore, D.D., 2006. Nuclear receptor-dependent bile acid signaling is required for normal liver regeneration. Science 312, 233–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Baguley, D., Andersson, G., McFerran, D., McKenna, L., 2013. Tinnitus: A Multidisciplinary Approach. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.
An edited book
Rizos, C., Willis, P. (Eds.), 2014. Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet: Proceedings of the IAG General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia, June 28 - July 2, 2011, International Association of Geodesy Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Chalkias, A., Iacovidou, N., 2016. Diagnostic Biomarkers of Acute Kidney Injury in Newborns, in: Patel, V.B., Preedy, V.R. (Eds.), Biomarkers in Kidney Disease. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 27–40.

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
Andrew, E., 2014. The Ogre-Faced Spider Throws A Net Over Its Prey Like A Gladiator [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ogre-faced-spider-throws-net-over-its-prey-gladiator/ (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. GAO Rolodex Cards (No. 148869). 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
Sumi, S.J., 2015. Eco-Hydrology Driven Evaluation of Statistically Downscaled Precipitation CMIP5 Climate Model Simulations over Louisiana (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
Feeney, K., 2007. Spanish Cuisine (From Scratch). New York Times NJ14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McDowell, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Marcus and Oransky, 2011; McDowell, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Marcus and Oransky, 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal titleEngineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food
AbbreviationEng. Agric. Environ. Food
ISSN (print)1881-8366
ScopeFood Science
General Chemical Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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