How to format your references using the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 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

La Madeleine, B. L. (2007). Lost in translation. Nature, 445(7126), 454–455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Symington, L. S., & Holloman, W. K. (2004). Molecular biology. New Year’s resolution--resolving resolvases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5655), 184–185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baughman, R. H., Zakhidov, A. A., & de Heer, W. A. (2002). Carbon nanotubes--the route toward applications. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 787–792.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Büttner, T., Geier, J., Frison, G., Harmer, J., Calle, C., Schweiger, A., et al. (2005). A stable aminyl radical metal complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5707), 235–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bobrow, J., Fisher, S., Mondragon-Gilmore, J., Casson, A., Orton, P. Z., Nathan, H. D., et al. (2009). CliffsNotes® CSET®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Denzler, J., Notni, G., & Süße, H. (Eds.). (2009). Pattern Recognition: 31st DAGM Symposium, Jena, Germany, September 9-11, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5748). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Waki, K. (2015). Assessment of Extracardiac and Intracardiac Anatomy by MD-CT. In H. Senzaki & S. Yasukochi (Eds.), Congenital Heart Disease: Morphological and Functional Assessment (pp. 71–94). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 5). Alignment Of Planets May Explain Sun’s Mysterious Cycle. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/alignment-of-planets-may-explain-suns-mysterious-cycle/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1992). Department of Education: The Eisenhower Math and Science State Grant Program (No. HRD-93-25). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez, C. (2010). An after-school program at the middle school level for at-risk youth (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

Shear, M. D., & Smale, A. (2017, June 3). Foreign Leaders Lament U.S. Withdrawal, but Say It Won’t Stop Climate Effort. New York Times, p. A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (La Madeleine 2007).
This sentence cites two references (La Madeleine 2007; Symington and Holloman 2004).

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

Two authors: (Symington and Holloman 2004)
Three or more authors: (Büttner et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Abbreviation	J. Agric. Environ. Ethics
ISSN (print)	1187-7863
ISSN (online)	1573-322X
Scope	Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) History General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry