How to format your references using the Acta Physiologiae Plantarum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Physiologiae Plantarum. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Haroche S (2012) The secrets of my prizewinning research. Nature 490:311

A journal article with 2 authors

Collerson KD, Weisler MI (2007) Stone adze compositions and the extent of ancient Polynesian voyaging and trade. Science 317:1907–1911

A journal article with 3 authors

Moon-van der Staay SY, De Wachter R, Vaulot D (2001) Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity. Nature 409:607–610

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Guo M, Chong YE, Beebe K, et al (2009) The C-Ala domain brings together editing and aminoacylation functions on one tRNA. Science 325:744–747

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McSween TE (2005) Values-Based Safety Process. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Scháfer E, Nagy F (eds) (2006) PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS IN PLANTS AND BACTERIA. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Perez-Ruiz F, Herrero-Beites AM (2014) Treatment of Hyperuricemia in Gout. In: Herrero-Beites AM (ed) Managing Gout in Primary Care. Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley, pp 41–52

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 Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Roadworks Unveil Hidden Haul Of 360-Million-Year-Old Fossils. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/roadworks-unveil-hidden-haul-of-360millionyearold-fossils/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2005) Space Shuttle: Actions Needed to Better Position NASA to Sustain Its Workforce Through Retirement. 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

Gallardo-Macias R (2009) Tin (II) compounds as novel catalysts for the Kabachnik-Fields reaction: Studies in the synthesis of alpha-aminophosphonates under solvent free conditions and Synthesis of phosphonates and phosphates as reversible and irreversible inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Hollander S (2000) Stevenson Also Seeking Maturity. New York Times D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haroche 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Collerson and Weisler 2007; Haroche 2012).

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

Two authors: (Collerson and Weisler 2007)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Physiologiae Plantarum
Abbreviation	Acta Physiol. Plant
ISSN (print)	0137-5881
ISSN (online)	1861-1664
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Physiology