How to format your references using the Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. 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

Miller, D. A. B. 2015. Applied Optics. Sorting out light. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347(6229):1423–1424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sigloch, K. and Mihalynuk, M. G. 2013. Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America. Nature 496(7443):50–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paul, J. W., West, J. P., and Gitler, A. D. 2014. Cell Biology. Clogging information flow in ALS. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6201):1118–1119.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krishnamurthy, P. C., Du, G., Fukuda, Y., Sun, D., Sampath, J., Mercer, K. E., Wang, J., Sosa-Pineda, B., Murti, K. G., and Schuetz, J. D. 2006. Identification of a mammalian mitochondrial porphyrin transporter. Nature 443(7111):586–589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaffikin, F. and Morrissey, M. 2011. Planning in Divided Cities: Collaborative Shaping of Contested Space. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Jorio, A., Dresselhaus, G., and Dresselhaus, M. S. (eds.). 2008. Carbon Nanotubes: Advanced Topics in the Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Da̧browski, B. P., Rudawy, P., and Karlický, M. 2012. Millisecond Radio Spikes in the Decimetric Band. In C. Marqué and A. Nindos (eds.). Energy Storage and Release through the Solar Activity Cycle: Models Meet Radio Observations Springer, New York, NY. p. 71–86.

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 Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2014, August 20. This Microbe’s Hair is Actually a Nanowire for Powering Itself. IFLScience. IFLScience [Internet]. Available at Website https://www.iflscience.com/technology/microbes-hair-actually-nanowire-powering-itself/.

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. 1997. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: An Assessment Guide--Exposure Draft (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.14). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Green, J. L. 2012. The leadership practices of executive women of local government. 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

Schwirtz, M. and Rashbaum, W. K. 2017, May 8. Accused of Spying, a New York City Correction Official Is Removed. New York Times:A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sigloch and Mihalynuk, 2013; Miller, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sigloch and Mihalynuk, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Krishnamurthy et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
Abbreviation	Renew. Agric. Food Syst.
ISSN (print)	1742-1705
ISSN (online)	1742-1713
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science