How to format your references using the Annual Review of Plant Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Plant Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Townes CH. 2004. Making waves. Nature. 432(7014):153

A journal article with 2 authors

Grewal SIS, Moazed D. 2003. Heterochromatin and epigenetic control of gene expression. Science. 301(5634):798–802

A journal article with 3 authors

McLaughlin AC, Sher F, Attfield JP. 2005. Negative lattice expansion from the superconductivity--antiferromagnetism crossover in ruthenium copper oxides. Nature. 436(7052):829–32

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang Y, Zhan Y, Zhang D, Dai B, Ma W, et al. 2014. Eupolyphaga sinensis walker displays inhibition on hepatocellular carcinoma through regulating cell growth and metastasis signaling. Sci. Rep. 4:5518

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lad BK, Shrivastava D, Kulkarni MS. 2016. Machine Tool Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dagum EB. 2006. Benchmarking, Temporal Distribution, and Reconciliation Methods for Time Series, Vol. 186. New York, NY: Springer. XIV, 410 p. 101 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Warrier SB, Kharkar PS. 2016. Inverse Virtual Screening in Drug Repositioning: Detailed Investigation and Case Studies. In Crystallizing Ideas – The Role of Chemistry, ed P Ramasami, M Gupta Bhowon, S Jhaumeer Laulloo, H Li Kam Wah, pp. 71–83. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 Annual Review of Plant Biology.

Blog post

Fang J. 2015. Newly Discovered Duck-Billed Dinosaur Lived In Cold, Snowy Alaska. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-duck-billed-dinosaur-lived-cold-snowy-alaska/

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. 2015. Information Technology: Implementation of Reform Legislation Needed to Improve Acquisitions and Operations. GAO-16-204T, 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

Joseph FB. 2017. Adsorption and Transformation of Selenium from Elemental Selenium Nanoparticles by Pseudomonas fuscovaginae. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Southern Illinois 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

Sisario B. 2017. Future Hits No. 1 on Billboard Chart. New York Times, Feb. 27, p. C3

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (3, 4).
This sentence cites four references (3, 5, 6, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Plant Biology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Plant Biol.
ISSN (print)	1543-5008
ISSN (online)	1545-2123
Scope	Plant Science Cell Biology Molecular Biology Physiology General Medicine