How to format your references using the Agri Gene citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agri Gene. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Nadis, S., 2000. Astronomers reveal the secrets of the name game. Nature 406, 819.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernest, S.K., Brown, J.H., 2001. Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization. Science 292, 101–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garlaschelli, D., Caldarelli, G., Pietronero, L., 2003. Universal scaling relations in food webs. Nature 423, 165–168.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Turner, J., King, J.C., Lachlan-Cope, T.A., Jones, P.D., 2002. Recent temperature trends in the Antarctic. Nature 418, 291–2; discussion 292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa, P.J., 2017. Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Liu, D., Zhang, H., Polycarpou, M., Alippi, C., He, H. (Eds.), 2011. Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2011: 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2011, Guilin, China, May 29–June 1, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Schiff, R., Sasson, A., Nuri, Y., Ben-Artzi, E., 2016. The Efficiency of Metacognitive and Metalinguistic Awareness in Word Spelling Among Hebrew Speaking Children with SLI: An Intervention Study, in: Schiff, R., Joshi, R.M. (Eds.), Interventions in Learning Disabilities: A Handbook on Systematic Training Programs for Individuals with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Studies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 67–89.

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 Agri Gene.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Rare Footage Captures A Sleepy Whale Waking Up From A Nap [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-footage-captures-sleepy-whale-waking-nap/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1996. DOE’s Laboratory Facilities (No. RCED-96-183R). 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

Dolan, D.J., 2017. Structural Evolution of Martin Crater Thaumasia Planum, Mars (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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ernest and Brown, 2001; Nadis, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Ernest and Brown, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Turner et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agri Gene
Abbreviation	Agri Gene
ISSN (print)	2352-2151
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