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

Michaels AF (2007) Ocean science. Highly active eddies. Science 316:992–993

A journal article with 2 authors

Hupp JT, Poeppelmeier KR (2005) Chemistry. Better living through nanopore chemistry. Science 309:2008–2009

A journal article with 3 authors

Park ST, Kim SK, Kim MS (2002) Observation of conformation-specific pathways in the photodissociation of 1-iodopropane ions. Nature 415:306–308

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Goedert J, Lécuyer C, Amiot R, et al (2018) Euryhaline ecology of early tetrapods revealed by stable isotopes. Nature 558:68–72

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wood J, Brown W, Howe H (2013) IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Alpay D, Cipriani F, Colombo F, et al (eds) (2016) Noncommutative Analysis, Operator Theory and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Barinova O, Lempitsky V, Tretiak E, Kohli P (2010) Geometric Image Parsing in Man-Made Environments. In: Daniilidis K, Maragos P, Paragios N (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 57–70

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

Fang J (2015) Link Between Secondhand Smoke and Childhood Eczema Found. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/link-between-secondhand-smoke-and-childhood-eczema-found/. 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 (1977) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s System of Accounting for Accounts Receivable. 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

Gu J (2010) Measurement, modeling, and synthesis of time-varying appearance of natural phenomena. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Crow K (2000) What Rhymes With Asbestos? An Urban Musical in Three Acts. New York Times 148

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Michaels 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hupp and Poeppelmeier 2005; Michaels 2007).

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

Two authors: (Hupp and Poeppelmeier 2005)
Three or more authors: (Goedert et al. 2018)

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