How to format your references using the Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health citation style

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

Stafford, N. (2006). Turbulent times. Nature, 443(7110), 385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwartz, M. W., Porte, D., Jr. (2005). Diabetes, obesity, and the brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5708), 375–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mutanen, M., Kaila, L., Tabell, J. (2013). Wide-ranging barcoding aids discovery of one-third increase of species richness in presumably well-investigated moths. Scientific Reports, 3, 2901.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pastalkova, E., Itskov, V., Amarasingham, A., Buzsáki, G. (2008). Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the rat hippocampus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5894), 1322–1327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rooney, T. (2010). IP Address Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Desai, N., Cirne, W. (Eds.). (2014). Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing: 17th International Workshop, JSSPP 2013, Boston, MA, USA, May 24, 2013 Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8429). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ščančar, J., Heath, E., Zuliani, T., Horvat, M., Kotnik, J., Perko, S., Milačič, R. (2015). Elements and Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Sediments of the Sava River. In R. Milačič, J. Ščančar, & M. Paunović (Eds.), The Sava River (pp. 95–121). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Safety and Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 5). Human Stem Cells Successfully Implanted In Pigs. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-stem-cells-successfully-implanted-pigs/

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. (2006). Health Information Technology: HHS is Continuing Efforts to Define Its National Strategy (No. GAO-06-1071T). 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

Curry, M. (2012). Students’ perceptions of entrepreneurship at a historically black university in central Mississippi (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2010, September 2). State Pension Fund Faces Shortfall, Candidate Says. New York Times, p. A30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stafford, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Schwartz and Porte, 2005; Stafford, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Schwartz and Porte, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Pastalkova et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
Abbreviation	J. Agric. Saf. Health
ISSN (print)	1074-7583
ISSN (online)	1943-7846
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health