How to format your references using the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 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	Download the output style file
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

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Kuypers, M. M. M. Microbiology. Sizing up the Uncultivated Majority. Science 2007, 317 (5844), 1510–1511.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Sachs, J.; Malaney, P. The Economic and Social Burden of Malaria. Nature 2002, 415 (6872), 680–685.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Schön, J. H.; Kloc, C.; Batlogg, B. Superconductivity at 52 K in Hole-Doped C60. Nature 2000, 408 (6812), 549–552.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Palesch, D.; Bosinger, S. E.; Tharp, G. K.; Vanderford, T. H.; Paiardini, M.; Chahroudi, A.; Johnson, Z. P.; Kirchhoff, F.; Hahn, B. H.; Norgren, R. B.; Patel, N. B.; Sodora, D. L.; Dawoud, R. A.; Stewart, C.-B.; Seepo, S. M.; Harris, R. A.; Liu, Y.; Raveendran, M.; Han, Y.; English, A.; Thomas, G. W. C.; Hahn, M. W.; Pipes, L.; Mason, C. E.; Muzny, D. M.; Gibbs, R. A.; Sauter, D.; Worley, K.; Rogers, J.; Silvestri, G. Sooty Mangabey Genome Sequence Provides Insight into AIDS Resistance in a Natural SIV Host. Nature 2018, 553 (7686), 77–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Toptygin, I. N. Electromagnetic Phenomena in Matter; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

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Gertsbakh, I. Network Reliability and Resilience; Shpungin, Y., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

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Yuen, B. Garden and Ecology in the Sky. In High-Rise Living in Asian Cities; Yuen, B., Yeh, A. G. O., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; pp 65–79.

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 Food Chemistry.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Darwin’s Theory May Be Brilliant But It Doesn’t Explain Everything. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/darwin-s-theory-may-be-brilliant-it-doesn-t-explain-everything/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Charter Schools: To Enhance Education’s Monitoring and Research, More Charter School-Level Data Are Needed; GAO-05-5; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Rus, E. L. A Grant Proposal for Program “Tech Connect”: Bridging the Generations through Technology Coaching. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

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Waldstein, D. Cleveland’s Renaissance Reaches the World Series. New York Times. October 19, 2016, p B12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Agric. Food Chem.
ISSN (print)	0021-8561
ISSN (online)	1520-5118
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Chemistry