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

Hardt W-D. 2009. Journal club. An infection biologist points out an outstanding issue in mucosal immunology. Nature. 459(7249):893

A journal article with 2 authors

Hirose T, Horvitz HR. 2013. An Sp1 transcription factor coordinates caspase-dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways. Nature. 500(7462):354–58

A journal article with 3 authors

Nakamura K, Takahashi Y, Fujiwara T. 2014. Low-temperature excess heat capacity in fresnoite glass and crystal. Sci. Rep. 4:6523

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Halder GJ, Kepert CJ, Moubaraki B, Murray KS, Cashion JD. 2002. Guest-dependent spin crossover in a nanoporous molecular framework material. Science. 298(5599):1762–65

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pahl J. 2016. Interference Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Dalang RC, Russo F, Dozzi M, eds. 2008. Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications V: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2005, Vol. 59. Basel: Birkhäuser. XIII, 519 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Paull L, Saeedi G. S, Seto M, Li H. 2011. A Multi-agent Framework with MOOS-IvP for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Sidescan Sonar Sensors. In Autonomous and Intelligent Systems: Second International Conference, AIS 2011, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 22-24, 2011. Proceedings, ed M Kamel, F Karray, W Gueaieb, A Khamis, pp. 41–50. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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

Hale T. 2015. How To Make The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Science. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/chemistry-perfect-grilled-cheese-sandwich/

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. 2016. Inland Waterways Fuel Tax: Additional Data Could Enhance IRS’s Efforts to Ensure Taxpayer Compliance. GAO-16-682, 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

Huber JA. 2012. Building an army: A corollary study of group interaction and group productivity. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Capella 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

Greenhouse L. 2007. Court Rules Coach’s Violations Are Not a Form of Free Speech. New York Times, June 22, p. D6

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 (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (3, 5, 7, 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