How to format your references using the Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food citation style

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

Michel-Kerjan, E., 2012. How resilient is your country? Nature 491, 497.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehning, D., Snyder, S.H., 2002. Circadian rhythms. Carbon monoxide and clocks. Science 298, 2339–2340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y., Chen, G., Zhang, C., 2013. Tunable spin-orbit coupling and quantum phase transition in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. Sci. Rep. 3, 1937.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Urich, E., Patsch, C., Aigner, S., Graf, M., Iacone, R., Freskgård, P.-O., 2013. Multicellular self-assembled spheroidal model of the blood brain barrier. Sci. Rep. 3, 1500.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abner, D.J., 2016. The ETF Handbook. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kim, Y.S., Ryoo, Y.J., Jang, M.-S., Bae, Y.-C. (Eds.), 2014. Advanced Intelligent Systems, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rapoport, M., Lhoták, O., Tip, F., 2015. Precise Data Flow Analysis in the Presence of Correlated Method Calls, in: Blazy, S., Jensen, T. (Eds.), Static Analysis: 22nd International Symposium, SAS 2015, Saint-Malo, France, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 54–71.

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 Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Genome Sequencing Mountain Gorillas Reveals The Genetic Impact Of Inbreeding [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1996. Central Artery/Tunnel Project: Cost and Financing (No. T-RCED-96-218). 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

Ashirgade, A., 2010. Mechanistic study of the rubber-brass adhesion interphase (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Billard, M., 2013. A Playwright’s Home, an Actor’s Muse. New York Times E11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Michel-Kerjan, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Boehning and Snyder, 2002; Michel-Kerjan, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Boehning and Snyder, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Urich et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food
Abbreviation	Eng. Agric. Environ. Food
ISSN (print)	1881-8366
Scope	Food Science General Chemical Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering