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

Hurtgen, M. T. (2012). Geochemistry. The marine sulfur cycle, revisited. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6092), 305–306.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blake, C., Wall, J. (2002). A velocity dipole in the distribution of radio galaxies. Nature, 416(6877), 150–152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alexander, J. M., Diez, J. M., Levine, J. M. (2015). Novel competitors shape species’ responses to climate change. Nature, 525(7570), 515–518.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Watson, T. F., Philips, S. G. J., Kawakami, E., Ward, D. R., Scarlino, P., Veldhorst, M., … Vandersypen, L. M. K. (2018). A programmable two-qubit quantum processor in silicon. Nature, 555(7698), 633–637.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davison, M. (2011). Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tsakanov, V., Wiedemann, H. (Eds.). (2007). Brilliant Light in Life and Material Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Winter, S. S., Taube, J. S. (2014). Head Direction Cells: From Generation to Integration. In D. Derdikman & J. J. Knierim (Eds.), Space,Time and Memory in the Hippocampal Formation (pp. 83–106). Vienna: 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

Luntz, S. (2015, September 7). Scientists Have “Squeezed” Light. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-achieve-impossible-way-squeeze-light/

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. (2000). Schools and Libraries Program: Application and Invoice Review Procedures Need Strengthening (No. GAO-01-105). 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

Tang, J. (2013). Understanding the college experiences of Cambodian American students (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

Walsh, M. W. (2011, May 5). Claiming Fraud in A.I.G. Bailout, Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Names 3 Companies. New York Times, p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hurtgen, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Blake and Wall, 2002; Hurtgen, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Blake and Wall, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Watson et al., 2018)

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