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

Shimono, M. (2013). Non-uniformity of cell density and networks in the monkey brain. Scientific reports, 3, 2541.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimura, S., & Yoshioka, K. (2014). Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone type-1 receptor accelerate myocyte differentiation. Scientific reports, 4, 5066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kohli, R. M., Walsh, C. T., & Burkart, M. D. (2002). Biomimetic synthesis and optimization of cyclic peptide antibiotics. Nature, 418(6898), 658–661.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

White, M. A., Eykelenboom, J. K., Lopez-Vernaza, M. A., Wilson, E., & Leach, D. R. F. (2008). Non-random segregation of sister chromosomes in Escherichia coli. Nature, 455(7217), 1248–1250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Assing, D., & Calé, S. (2013). Mobile Access Safety. Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rinderle-Ma, S., Toumani, F., & Wolf, K. (Eds.). (2011). Business Process Management: 9th International Conference, BPM 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France, August 30 - September 2, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6896). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Angehrn, E. (2012). Verstehendes Leben. In R. Breeur & U. Melle (Eds.), Life, Subjectivity & Art: Essays in Honor of Rudolf Bernet (pp. 123–143). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Taub, B. (2016, September 30). Neanderthals May Have Held Fiery Funerals For Their Dead. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/neanderthals-may-have-held-fiery-funerals-for-their-dead/. 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. (2001). Information Technology: State Department Led Overseas Modernization Program Faces Management Challenges (No. GAO-02-41). 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

Kantar, L. (2010). Clinical judgment among new nursing graduates: A multiple-case study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Chapman, M. M. (2014, August 9). Bankruptcy Judge Gets View of Detroit Outside Courtroom. New York Times, p. A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shimono 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kimura and Yoshioka 2014; Shimono 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kimura and Yoshioka 2014)
Three or more authors: (White et al. 2008)

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