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

Nielsen R (2006) Evolution. Why sex? Science 311:960–961

A journal article with 2 authors

Lam I, Keeney S (2015) Nonparadoxical evolutionary stability of the recombination initiation landscape in yeast. Science 350:932–937

A journal article with 3 authors

Conroy C, van Dokkum PG, Choi J (2015) Ubiquitous time variability of integrated stellar populations. Nature 527:488–491

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Aoki D, Huxley A, Ressouche E, et al (2001) Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in URhGe. Nature 413:613–616

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brauer RL (2005) Safety and Health for Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Giannakopoulou D, Salaün G (eds) (2014) Software Engineering and Formal Methods: 12th International Conference, SEFM 2014, Grenoble, France, September 1-5, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Smith CAS (2014) Assessing Academic STEM Women’s Sense of Isolation in the Workplace. In: Gilmer PJ, Tansel B, Miller MH (eds) Alliances for Advancing Academic Women: Guidelines for Collaborating in STEM Fields. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 97–117

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

Andrew E (2014) Has The Hole in Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Theory Been Plugged? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/has-hole-stephen-hawking’s-black-hole-theory-been-plugged/. 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 (1995) Federal Research: Interim Report on the Small Business Innovation Research Program. 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

Creed CK (2017) Identifying Controls on Patterns of Intermittent Streamflow in Three Streams of the American Southwest: A Geospatial Approach. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Barron J (2017) In the Age of Reality TV, a Best-Selling Author Calls In Real-Life Heroes. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nielsen 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Nielsen 2006; Lam and Keeney 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lam and Keeney 2015)
Three or more authors: (Aoki et al. 2001)

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