How to format your references using the Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. 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

Bowerman, B. 2008. Cell signaling. Wnt moves beyond the canon. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320(5874):327–328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Groves, J. T. and Boaz, N. C. 2014. Biochemistry. Fishing for peroxidase protons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6193):142–143.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mills, C. E., Robins, J. M., and Lipsitch, M. 2004. Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza. Nature 432(7019):904–906.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nobrega, M. A., Ovcharenko, I., Afzal, V., and Rubin, E. M. 2003. Scanning human gene deserts for long-range enhancers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5644):413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benchaib, A. 2015. Advanced Control of AC/DC Power Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Azarnoosh, M., Zeraatpishe, M., Faravani, A., and Kargozari, H. R. (eds.). 2016. Issues in Materials Development. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng, H. and Labahn, G. 2014. A Practical Implementation of a Modular Algorithm for Ore Polynomial Matrices. In R. Feng, W.-S. Lee, and Y. Sato (eds.). Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. p. 49–59.

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 Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. 2016, November 24. Spiral Galaxies Aren’t The Only Ones With Spiral Shapes. IFLScience. IFLScience [Internet]. Available at Website https://www.iflscience.com/space/spiral-galaxies-arent-the-only-ones-with-spiral-shapes/.

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. 2011. Information Technology: OMB Has Made Improvements to Its Dashboard, but Further Work Is Needed by Agencies and OMB to Ensure Data Accuracy. 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

Kalavacherla, R. S. 2017. DFT study of the improved performance of oxygen reduction reaction on gold-copper alloy in a PEM fuel cell. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Burghardt, L. F. 2006, November 19. Long Island Weekend: A 48-Hour Treadmill of Activity -- Sunday. New York Times:14LI13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowerman, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bowerman, 2008; Groves and Boaz, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Groves and Boaz, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Nobrega et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
Abbreviation	Renew. Agric. Food Syst.
ISSN (print)	1742-1705
ISSN (online)	1742-1713
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science