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

Butterworth A (2014) The moral problem with commercial seal hunting. Nature 509:9

A journal article with 2 authors

Dangl JL, Jones JD (2001) Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection. Nature 411:826–833

A journal article with 3 authors

Mehta MR, Lee AK, Wilson MA (2002) Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code. Nature 417:741–746

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chiu JC, Kaub K, Zou S, et al (2013) Deleterious effect of suboptimal diet on rest-activity cycle in Anastrepha ludens manifests itself with age. Sci Rep 3:1773

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garrison DR, Vaughan ND (2007) Blended Learning in Higher Education. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA

An edited book

Malevergne Y (2006) Extreme Financial Risks: From Dependence to Risk Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gropp WD (2008) MPI and Hybrid Programming Models for Petascale Computing. In: Lastovetsky A, Kechadi T, Dongarra J (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 15th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, September 7-10, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 6–7

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

Hale T (2017) Svalbard “Doomsday” Seed Vault To Get Revamp After Permafrost Melt Leak. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/svalbard-doomsday-seed-vault-to-get-revamp-after-permafrost-melt-leak/. 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 (1980) Requirements for Recurring Reports to the Congress. 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

Dill KD (2012) Nonparametric alternative to Poly-k test in animal tumorigenicity studies. 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

Kelly D (1995) Model Citizen. New York Times 720

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butterworth 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Dangl and Jones 2001; Butterworth 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dangl and Jones 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chiu et al. 2013)

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