How to format your references using the Agricultural and Forest Meteorology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 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 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

Alon, U., 2003. Biological networks: the tinkerer as an engineer. Science 301, 1866–1867.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis, J.A., Ahn, B.Y., 2015. Device fabrication: Three-dimensional printed electronics. Nature 518, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, Z.-F., Dai, L.-Q., Zheng, Y.-F., 2013. Postcollisional mafic igneous rocks record crust-mantle interaction during continental deep subduction. Sci. Rep. 3, 3413.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coureux, P.-D., Wells, A.L., Ménétrey, J., Yengo, C.M., Morris, C.A., Sweeney, H.L., Houdusse, A., 2003. A structural state of the myosin V motor without bound nucleotide. Nature 425, 419–423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morsali, A., Hashemi, L., 2017. Main Group Metal Coordination Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hamilton, M.L., 2009. Self-study of Practice as a Genre of Qualitative Research: Theory, Methodology, and Practice, Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Libkin, L., 2005. Logics for Unranked Trees: An Overview, in: Caires, L., Italiano, G.F., Monteiro, L., Palamidessi, C., Yung, M. (Eds.), Automata, Languages and Programming: 32nd International Colloquium, ICALP 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-15, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 35–50.

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 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. These Are The World’s Most Empathetic Countries [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/worlds-most-empathetic-countries/ (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, 1991. Telecommunications: 1991 Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services (No. T-RCED-91-82). 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

Meijer, K., 2015. Let the Gods Dance: Transformation Through Haitian Dance (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Palmer, E., 2016. Serving as a Role Model During a Father’s Absence. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alon, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Alon, 2003; Lewis and Ahn, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lewis and Ahn, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Coureux et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Abbreviation	Agric. For. Meteorol.
ISSN (print)	0168-1923
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Forestry Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change