How to format your references using the Agricultural Systems citation style

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

Smaglik, P., 2004. Making the switch. Nature 430, 811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinchen, J.M., Ravichandran, K.S., 2010. Identification of two evolutionarily conserved genes regulating processing of engulfed apoptotic cells. Nature 464, 778–782.

A journal article with 3 authors

Melis, A.P., Hare, B., Tomasello, M., 2006. Chimpanzees recruit the best collaborators. Science 311, 1297–1300.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, J., Li, J., Deng, B., Jiang, H., Wang, Z., Yu, M., Li, L., Xing, C., Li, Y., 2013. Self-healing of the superhydrophobicity by ironing for the abrasion durable superhydrophobic cotton fabrics. Sci. Rep. 3, 2951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rizzi, T.E., Valenciano, A., Bowles, M., Cowell, R., Tyler, R., DeNicola, D.B., 2017. Atlas of Canine and Feline Urinalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cudd, A.E., Lee, W.-C. (Eds.), 2016. Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age, AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lacoin, H., 2014. The Scaling Limit for Zero-Temperature Planar Ising Droplets: With and Without Magnetic Fields, in: Ramírez, A.F., Ben Arous, G., Ferrari, P.A., Newman, C.M., Sidoravicius, V., Vares, M.E. (Eds.), Topics in Percolative and Disordered Systems, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 85–120.

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 Systems.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Why Do Galaxies Stop Forming Stars? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-do-galaxies-stop-forming-stars/ (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, 1988. Information Systems: Agencies Overlook Security Controls During Development (No. IMTEC-88-11). 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

Crossman, D.C., 2008. The impact of safety culture on worker motivation and the economic bottom line (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

St. John Kelly, E., 1998. Springer’s Harvest. New York Times D10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kinchen and Ravichandran, 2010; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kinchen and Ravichandran, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agricultural Systems
Abbreviation	Agric. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0308-521X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Animal Science and Zoology