How to format your references using the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 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

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Nisbet, E. Heavenly Phenomena. Nature 2001, 410 (6829), 635.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Hogg, R. C.; Bertrand, D. Neuroscience. What Genes Tell Us about Nicotine Addiction. Science 2004, 306 (5698), 983–985.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Medina, P. P.; Nolde, M.; Slack, F. J. OncomiR Addiction in an in Vivo Model of microRNA-21-Induced Pre-B-Cell Lymphoma. Nature 2010, 467 (7311), 86–90.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Frazão, C.; McVey, C. E.; Amblar, M.; Barbas, A.; Vonrhein, C.; Arraiano, C. M.; Carrondo, M. A. Unravelling the Dynamics of RNA Degradation by Ribonuclease II and Its RNA-Bound Complex. Nature 2006, 443 (7107), 110–114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Eylert, B. The Mobile Multimedia Business; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

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An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience; Forstmann, B. U., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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Kumar, S.; Managi, S. Total Factor Productivity of Indian Industry. In The Economics of Sustainable Development: The Case of India; Kumar, S., Ed.; Springer US: New York, NY, 2009; pp 85–105.

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 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Blog post

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Fang, J. Earliest Known Pterodactyloid Discovered in China. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earliest-known-pterodactyloid-discovered-china/ (accessed 2018-10-30)

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

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Government Accountability Office. The Times and Space: An Interview With Michael Collins; 137888; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Beaven, L. Epiphanies of Soul: “When the Bolts of the Universe Fly Open.” A Depth Psychological Contemplation of Wonder. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014.

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

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Eligon, J.; Kovaleski, S. F.; Coscarelli, J. Pain and Pills, and Help Too Late to Save Prince. New York Times. May 4, 2016, p A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Agric. Food Chem.
ISSN (print)	0021-8561
ISSN (online)	1520-5118
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Chemistry