How to format your references using the The Journal of Agricultural Science citation style

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

Fitch, T. (2010). Journal club. A cognitive biologist foresees breakthroughs in understanding vocal learning. Nature, 466, 163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barbraud, C. & Weimerskirch, H. (2001). Emperor penguins and climate change. Nature, 411, 183–186.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, X., Jin, L. & Zhou, Z.H. (2008). 3.88 A structure of cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus by cryo-electron microscopy. Nature, 453, 415–419.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Götz, J., Chen, F., van Dorpe, J. & Nitsch, R.M. (2001). Formation of neurofibrillary tangles in P301l tau transgenic mice induced by Abeta 42 fibrils. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293, 1491–1495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Monks, R.A.G., Reed Lajoux, A. & LeBaron, D. (2010). Corporate Valuation for Portfolio Investment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Laza, R., Schütt, M. & Yui, N. (eds). (2013). Arithmetic and Geometry of K3 Surfaces and Calabi–Yau Threefolds. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Richter, M.M. & Weber, R.O. (2013). Case Representations. In Case-Based Reasoning: A Textbook (Ed R.O. Weber), pp. 87–111. 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 The Journal of Agricultural Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Earth’s Primordial Atmosphere Lost Due To Relentless Small Impacts, https://www.iflscience.com/space/earth-s-primordial-atmosphere-lost-due-relentless-small-impacts/

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. (2016). Next Generation Air Transportation System: Information on Expenditures, Schedule, and Cost Estimates, Fiscal Years 2004 -- 2030. 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

Yamada, M. (2008). The Role of the TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE2 (TIR2) Gene in Auxin Synthesis in Arabidopsis. Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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

Sisario, B. (2016). A No. 1 for Lady Gaga. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fitch 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Barbraud & Weimerskirch 2001; Fitch 2010).

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

Two authors: (Barbraud & Weimerskirch 2001)
Three or more authors: (Götz et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Agricultural Science
Abbreviation	J. Agric. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-8596
ISSN (online)	1469-5146
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Animal Science and Zoology Genetics