How to format your references using the Annals of Agricultural Sciences citation style

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

Kitching, R.L., 2006. Ecology. Crafting the pieces of the diversity jigsaw puzzle. Science 313, 1055–1057.

A journal article with 2 authors

Takeuchi, J.K., Bruneau, B.G., 2009. Directed transdifferentiation of mouse mesoderm to heart tissue by defined factors. Nature 459, 708–711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blackburn, E.H., Epel, E.S., Lin, J., 2015. Human telomere biology: A contributory and interactive factor in aging, disease risks, and protection. Science 350, 1193–1198.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ahn, J.-H., Kim, H.-S., Lee, K.J., Jeon, S., Kang, S.J., Sun, Y., Nuzzo, R.G., Rogers, J.A., 2006. Heterogeneous three-dimensional electronics by use of printed semiconductor nanomaterials. Science 314, 1754–1757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deschamps, J.-P., Bioul, G.J.A., Sutter, G.D., 2005. Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Evans, B., Horton, J., Skelton, T. (Eds.), 2016. Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing, Geographies of Children and Young People. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Seeling, P., Fitzek, F.H.P., Reisslein, M., 2007. Metrics and Statistics for Video Traces, in: Fitzek, F.H.P., Reisslein, M. (Eds.), Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation: A Comprehensive Overview and Guide on Video Traces and Their Utilization in Networking Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 45–58.

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 Annals of Agricultural Sciences.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. How Your Parent’s Lifespan Affects Your Health [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-your-parents-lifespan-affects-your-health/ (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, 2005. Telecommunications: Concerns Regarding the Structure and FCC’s Management of the E-Rate Program (No. GAO-05-439T). 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

Stefanek, A., 2019. Quantitative Purchasing Structure for Ferrous Scrap (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Vlasic, B., Chapman, M.M., 2016. VW Starts Down Road of Winning Back Americans. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kitching, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kitching, 2006; Takeuchi and Bruneau, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Takeuchi and Bruneau, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ahn et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Agricultural Sciences
Abbreviation	Ann. Agric. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0570-1783
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