How to format your references using the Agricultural Research citation style

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

Aubert J (2015) PLANETARY SCIENCE. Ancient planetary dynamos, take two. Science 349:475–476

A journal article with 2 authors

Voytas DF, Joung JK (2009) Plant science. DNA binding made easy. Science 326:1491–1492

A journal article with 3 authors

Christian W, Esquembre F, Barbato L (2011) SPORE series winner. Open source physics. Science 334:1077–1078

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tellides G, Tereb DA, Kirkiles-Smith NC, et al (2000) Interferon-gamma elicits arteriosclerosis in the absence of leukocytes. Nature 403:207–211

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kromidas S (2014) Der HPLC-Experte. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Rose A (2015) Anticoagulation Management: A Guidebook for Pharmacists, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Qian X, Huang H, Duan Z, et al (2007) Optimized Register Renaming Scheme for Stack-Based x86 Operations. In: Lukowicz P, Thiele L, Tröster G (eds) Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2007: 20th International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, March 12-15, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–56

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Scientist Spotlight: Barbara McClintock. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1995) Schools and Workplaces: An Overview of Successful and Unsuccessful Practices. 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

Pyzdrowski JE (2017) Experiences of Advisors/Mentors in Developing Leadership Emergence in a Post Conflict, Marginalized Society: A Phenomenological Study. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Shpigel B (2017) Where Gold Cloth Is the Standard. New York Times D1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Agricultural Research
Abbreviation	Agric. Res.
ISSN (print)	2249-720X
ISSN (online)	2249-7218
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science