How to format your references using the Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus (ACS). 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

Lewis N.S. (2007). Toward cost-effective solar energy use. Science 315 (5813): 798–801

A journal article with 2 authors

Gandin V., Topisirovic I. (2013). Cell biology. Trans-HSF1 express. Science 341 (6143): 242–243

A journal article with 3 authors

Lai C.S.W., Franke T.F., Gan W.-B. (2012). Opposite effects of fear conditioning and extinction on dendritic spine remodelling. Nature 483 (7387): 87–91

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Frederick K.K., Marlow M.S., Valentine K.G., Wand A.J. (2007). Conformational entropy in molecular recognition by proteins. Nature 448 (7151): 325–329

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacquenet C., Bourdon G., Boucadair M. (2008). Service Automation and Dynamic Provisioning Techniques in IP/MPLS Environments. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Barthe G., Datta A., Etalle S. (eds). (2012). Formal Aspects of Security and Trust: 8th International Workshop, FAST 2011, Leuven, Belgium, September 12-14, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, X, 279 p. 51 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Hentschel C., Sack H., Steinmetz N. (2014). Cross-Dataset Learning of Visual Concepts. In: Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: Semantics, Context, and Adaptation: 10th International Workshop, AMR 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 24-25, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Nürnberger A., Stober S., Larsen B., Detyniecki M., eds), Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 87–101

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 Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus.

Blog post

Andrews R. (2017). Eruption Causes Alaskan Island To Double In Size In Just One Month. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/eruption-alaskan-island-double-size-one-month/ [Accessed 30 October 2018]

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. (2012). Students with Disabilities: Better Federal Coordination Could Lessen Challenges in the Transition from High School. No. GAO-12-594. 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

Savvas C. (2010). Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

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

Greenhouse L. (2007). Court Weighs Rights of Passengers When Police Stop Cars. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gandin and Topisirovic, 2013; Lewis, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Gandin and Topisirovic, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Frederick et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus
ISSN (print)	1331-7768
ISSN (online)	1331-7776
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