How to format your references using the Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science. 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

Robinson GE. 2004. Genomics. Beyond nature and nurture. Science. 304(5669):397–399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oldham ML, Chen J. 2011. Crystal structure of the maltose transporter in a pretranslocation intermediate state. Science. 332(6034):1202–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paradise J, Andrews L, Holbrook T. 2005. Intellectual property. Patents on human genes: an analysis of scope and claims. Science. 307(5715):1566–1567.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Pradillon F, Shillito B, Young CM, Gaill F. 2001. Deep-sea ecology. Developmental arrest in vent worm embryos. Nature. 413(6857):698–699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Etube LS. 2000. Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Offshore Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lambrechts J. 2016. Microsensing Networks for Sustainable Cities. 1st ed. 2016. Sinha S, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Siddiqui JH, Khurshid S. 2009. An Empirical Study of Structural Constraint Solving Techniques. In: Breitman K, Cavalcanti A, editors. Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 11th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods ICFEM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 9-12, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 88–106.

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 Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2014. Students Cooperate Using Brain-To-Brain Communication. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/mind-meld-brains-cooperate-without-words/

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. 2007. Information Technology: Improvements for Acquisition of Customs Trade Processing System Continue, but Further Efforts Needed to Avoid More Cost and Schedule Shortfalls. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dominguez YC. 2014. Recruitment, training, and support for foster parents of children birth to 4 years: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: 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

Walsh MW. 2016. Treasury Official Urges Congress to Act Quickly on Puerto Rico. New York Times.:B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson 2004; Oldham and Chen 2011).

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

Two authors: (Oldham and Chen 2011)
Three or more authors: (Pradillon et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science
Abbreviation	Arch. Acker Pflanzenbau Bodenkd.
ISSN (print)	0365-0340
ISSN (online)	1476-3567
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science