How to format your references using the Agricultural Water Management citation style

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

Heavens, N.G., 2011. Planetary science. Sunshine on a cloudy forecast. Science 333, 1832–1833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Losos, J.B., Ricklefs, R.E., 2009. Adaptation and diversification on islands. Nature 457, 830–836.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, M., McCauley, J.W., Hemker, K.J., 2003. Shock-induced localized amorphization in boron carbide. Science 299, 1563–1566.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bailey, S.M., Cornforth, M.N., Kurimasa, A., Chen, D.J., Goodwin, E.H., 2001. Strand-specific postreplicative processing of mammalian telomeres. Science 293, 2462–2465.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molloy, M., Larner, W., 2013. Fashioning Globalisation. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

Ambroszkiewicz, S., Brzeziński, J., Cellary, W., Grzech, A., Zieliński, K. (Eds.), 2014. Advanced SOA Tools and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Rahman, S.S. ur, Schallehn, E., Saake, G., 2011. ECOS: Evolutionary Column-Oriented Storage, in: Fernandes, A.A.A., Gray, A.J.G., Belhajjame, K. (Eds.), Advances in Databases: 28th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 28, Manchester, UK, July 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 18–32.

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 Water Management.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. New Technique Mimics Animal Senses To Screen For Toxic Chemicals [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/new-technique-mimics-animal-senses-to-screen-for-toxic-chemicals/ (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, 2003. Aviation Safety: Information on FAA’s Data on Operational Errors At Air Traffic Control Towers (No. GAO-03-1175R). 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

Kramer, K.A., 2010. System for Identifying Plankton from the SIPPER Instrument Platform (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Football Coaches Find Stress And Satisfaction. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heavens, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Heavens, 2011; Losos and Ricklefs, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Losos and Ricklefs, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Bailey et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agricultural Water Management
Abbreviation	Agric. Water Manag.
ISSN (print)	0378-3774
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology