How to format your references using the Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment citation style

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

Simpson, R.W., 2000. SEISMOLOGY: Watching the Hayward Fault. Science 289, 1147–1148.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baum, J., Cowman, A.F., 2011. Biochemistry. Revealing a parasite’s invasive trick. Science 333, 410–411.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Q.D., Gotthelf, E.V., Lang, C.C., 2002. A faint discrete source origin for the highly ionized iron emission from the Galactic Centre region. Nature 415, 148–150.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bernstein, E., Caudy, A.A., Hammond, S.M., Hannon, G.J., 2001. Role for a bidentate ribonuclease in the initiation step of RNA interference. Nature 409, 363–366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halloran, M., Thies, C., 2012. The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ananthakrishnan, A.N. (Ed.), 2016. Nutritional Management of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Comprehensive Guide, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Adaricheva, K., Nation, J.B., 2016. Lattices of Algebraic Subsets and Implicational Classes, in: Grätzer, G., Wehrung, F. (Eds.), Lattice Theory: Special Topics and Applications: Volume 2. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 103–151.

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, Ecosystems and Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The Ethics Of ‘Gifted’ Genes: The Road To Gattaca? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ethics-gifted-genes-road-gattaca/ (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, 1993. Federal Research: Superconducting Super Collider Cost and Schedule (No. T-RCED-93-47). 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

Rouhani, M., 2013. Overdose prevention and naloxone distribution: A grant project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Leland, J., 2016. Grandmaster Flash Beats Back Time. New York Times MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simpson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Baum and Cowman, 2011; Simpson, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Baum and Cowman, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bernstein et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
Abbreviation	Agric. Ecosyst. Environ.
ISSN (print)	0167-8809
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Animal Science and Zoology Ecology