How to format your references using the European Journal of Agronomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Agronomy. 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
Lu, H.P., 2012. Biochemistry. Enzymes in coherent motion. Science 335, 300–301.
A journal article with 2 authors
Kawasaki, H., Taira, K., 2003. Hes1 is a target of microRNA-23 during retinoic-acid-induced neuronal differentiation of NT2 cells. Nature 423, 838–842.
A journal article with 3 authors
Nakamura, K., Takahashi, Y., Fujiwara, T., 2014. Low-temperature excess heat capacity in fresnoite glass and crystal. Sci. Rep. 4, 6523.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Gravenor, M.B., Cox, D.R., Hoinville, L.J., Hoek, A., McLean, A.R., 2000. Scrapie in Britain during the BSE years. Nature 406, 584–585.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Keene, A., 2013. Keene on the Market. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Schatzker, J., 2005. The Rationale of Operative Fracture Care, Third Edition. ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Hunt, A., Jiang, Y., Zhao, Z., Venugopal, G., 2010. Nanomaterials via NanoSpray Combustion Chemical Vapor Condensation, and Their Electronic Applications, in: Wong, C.P., Moon, K.-S., Li, Y. (grace) (Eds.), Nano-Bio- Electronic, Photonic and MEMS Packaging. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 139–166.

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 European Journal of Agronomy.

Blog post
Andrews, R., 2016. We May Have Just A Year To Prepare For A Supervolcanic Eruption [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, 2000. Gender Equity: Men’s and Women’s Participation in Higher Education (No. GAO-01-128). 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
Murdock, J.M., 2017. Lethe and the Twin Bodhisattvas of Forgiveness and Forgetfulness (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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
Gorman, J., 2017. Simple Signal Sets Off Complex Frog Journey. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lu, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Kawasaki and Taira, 2003; Lu, 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Kawasaki and Taira, 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Gravenor et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal titleEuropean Journal of Agronomy
AbbreviationEur. J. Agron.
ISSN (print)1161-0301
ScopeAgronomy and Crop Science
Plant Science
Soil Science

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