How to format your references using the Agriculture citation style

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

Kamakura, M. Royalactin Induces Queen Differentiation in Honeybees. Nature 2011, 473, 478–483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramocki, M.B.; Zoghbi, H.Y. Failure of Neuronal Homeostasis Results in Common Neuropsychiatric Phenotypes. Nature 2008, 455, 912–918.

A journal article with 3 authors

Russell, D.G.; Barry, C.E., 3rd; Flynn, J.L. Tuberculosis: What We Don’t Know Can, and Does, Hurt Us. Science 2010, 328, 852–856.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Suzuki, Y.; Nakano, Y.; Mishiro, K.; Takagi, T.; Tsuruma, K.; Nakamura, M.; Yoshimura, S.; Shimazawa, M.; Hara, H. Involvement of Mincle and Syk in the Changes to Innate Immunity after Ischemic Stroke. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 3177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Masujima, M. Applied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005; ISBN 9783527605842.

An edited book

Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science; Schmicking, D., Gallagher, S., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010; ISBN 9789048126453.

A chapter in an edited book

Weidner, N.; O’Brien, K.E.; Wynne, K.T. Social Media Use: Antecedents and Outcomes of Sharing. In Social Media in Employee Selection and Recruitment: Theory, Practice, and Current Challenges; Landers, R.N., Schmidt, G.B., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 79–101 ISBN 9783319299877.

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 Agriculture.

Blog post

Andrews, R. The Zika Virus Could Hide In Eyes And Spread Through Tears (accessed on 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 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2003;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ryan, B.A. Computer-Based Versus Paper-Pencil Modes of Administration United States Government End of Course Exams: Student Cumulative Grade Point Averages as Predictors of Success. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 2012.

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

Crow, K. 67 Dogs, Some Hot and Some Sly, Have Their Day. New York Times 2001, 144.

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	Agriculture
ISSN (online)	2077-0472
Scope