How to format your references using the Agronomy for Sustainable Development citation style

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

Orgel LE (2004) Molecular biology. Retrospective: Francis Crick (1916-2004). Science 305:1118

A journal article with 2 authors

Hector A, Hooper R (2002) Ecology. Darwin and the first ecological experiment. Science 295:639–640

A journal article with 3 authors

Bennett MJ, Lebrón JA, Bjorkman PJ (2000) Crystal structure of the hereditary haemochromatosis protein HFE complexed with transferrin receptor. Nature 403:46–53

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Albertini AAV, Wernimont AK, Muziol T, et al (2006) Crystal structure of the rabies virus nucleoprotein-RNA complex. Science 313:360–363

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vogel W, Kalb H (2010) Large-Scale Solar Thermal Power. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Skouras E (2013) Stimulation of Trigeminal Afferents Improves Motor Recovery After Facial Nerve Injury: Functional, Electrophysiological and Morphological Proofs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Crespi Reghizzi S, Breveglieri L, Morzenti A (2013) Translation Semantics and Static Analysis. In: Breveglieri L, Morzenti A (eds) Formal Languages and Compilation. Springer, London, pp 293–387

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 Agronomy for Sustainable Development.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Bizarre Young Planetary System Found With An Extra Planet-Forming Disk. 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 (1990) Loma Prieta Earthquake: Collapse of the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Viaduct. 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

Byeon G (2014) More than words: A comparative study of Liszt’s Liebesträume and the songs from which they were transcribed. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2017) As Reed Departs the Mets, Prospects Are on Their Way. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Orgel 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hector and Hooper 2002; Orgel 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hector and Hooper 2002)
Three or more authors: (Albertini et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Abbreviation	Agron. Sustain. Dev.
ISSN (print)	1774-0746
ISSN (online)	1773-0155
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Environmental Engineering