How to format your references using the Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health citation style

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

Franklin, A. D. (2013). Electronics: the road to carbon nanotube transistors. Nature, 498(7455), 443–444.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mehta, M. P., Baross, J. A. (2006). Nitrogen fixation at 92 degrees C by a hydrothermal vent archaeon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5806), 1783–1786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tingley, M. W., Estes, L. D., Wilcove, D. S. (2013). Ecosystems: climate change must not blow conservation off course. Nature, 500(7462), 271–272.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Asfaw, B., Gilbert, W. H., Beyene, Y., Hart, W. K., Renne, P. R., WoldeGabriel, G., … White, T. D. (2002). Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature, 416(6878), 317–320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, J., Roberts, R. (2015). Vital Signs for Nurses. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Burger, J. (Ed.). (2011). Stakeholders and Scientists: Achieving Implementable Solutions to Energy and Environmental Issues. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Frellsen, J., Mardia, K. V., Borg, M., Ferkinghoff-Borg, J., Hamelryck, T. (2012). Towards a General Probabilistic Model of Protein Structure: The Reference Ratio Method. In T. Hamelryck, K. Mardia, & J. Ferkinghoff-Borg (Eds.), Bayesian Methods in Structural Bioinformatics (pp. 125–134). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Safety and Health.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, June 9). Early Exposure To Pets, Dirt & Germs Are Good For Babies. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1991). Meeting the Aviation Challenges of the 1990s: Experts Define Key Problems and Identify Emerging Issues (No. RCED-91-152). 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

Shimpeno, P. D. (2010). Consumed: Simple Choices, Complex Problems (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Yanagihara, H. (2017, September 7). Nowhere Man. New York Times, p. M2128.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Franklin, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Franklin, 2013; Mehta and Baross, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mehta and Baross, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Asfaw et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
Abbreviation	J. Agric. Saf. Health
ISSN (print)	1074-7583
ISSN (online)	1943-7846
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health