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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Italian Journal of Agronomy (IJA). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Trivedi B, 2010. Learning from the elite. Nature 466:S4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robert F, Chaussidon M, 2006. A palaeotemperature curve for the Precambrian oceans based on silicon isotopes in cherts. Nature 443:969–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blackburn EH, Epel ES, Lin J, 2015. Human telomere biology: A contributory and interactive factor in aging, disease risks, and protection. Science 350:1193–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zou L-N, Cheng X, Rivers ML, Jaeger HM, Nagel SR, 2009. The packing of granular polymer chains. Science 326:408–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Somjit N, Robertson I, Chongcheawchamnan M, 2016. Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Design for Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rabhi FA, Gomber P (Eds), 2013. Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry: 6th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2012, Barcelona, Spain, June 10, 2012. Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Malanowski N, 2008. Matching Demand and Supply: Future Technologies for Active Ageing in Europe. In: Kohlbacher F, Herstatt C (eds) The Silver Market Phenomenon: Business Opportunities in an Era of Demographic Change. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–53.

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 Italian Journal of Agronomy.

Blog post

Andrew E, 2015. Alternative Therapies: What’s The Harm? IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/alternative-therapies-what-s-harm/

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, 1996. Aviation Safety: Targeting and Training of FAA’s Safety Inspector Workforce. 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

Akiyama KM, 2017. Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Vecsey G, 2010. Suspicion Is One Nemesis Armstrong Can’t Outpedal. 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 (Trivedi, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Robert and Chaussidon, 2006; Trivedi, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Robert and Chaussidon, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zou et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Italian Journal of Agronomy
Abbreviation	Ital. J. Agron.
ISSN (print)	1125-4718
ISSN (online)	2039-6805
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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