How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Plant Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 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

Amabilino, D.B. 2009. Chemistry. How deformation can lend a hand to molecular ordering. Science 325: 402–403.

A journal article with 2 authors

Horner, P.J., and Gage, F.H. 2000. Regenerating the damaged central nervous system. Nature 407: 963–970.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gagné, J.-P., Rouleau, M., and Poirier, G.G. 2012. Structural biology. PARP-1 activation--bringing the pieces together. Science 336: 678–679.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chiti, F., Stefani, M., Taddei, N., Ramponi, G., and Dobson, C.M. 2003. Rationalization of the effects of mutations on peptide and protein aggregation rates. Nature 424: 805–808.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fullman, S.H. 2010. Increasing Alpha with Options. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cérin, C., and Li, K.-C. (eds.) 2007. Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing: Second International Conference, GPC 2007, Paris, France, May 2-4, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sung, K., Pavleas, J., Arnez, F., and Pace, J. 2015. Implementing Common Components of Video Games. Pages 77–126 in J. Pavleas, F. Arnez, and J. Pace, eds. Build Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games: Using HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

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 Canadian Journal of Plant Science.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015.April 22. Study With 95,000 Children Finds No Link Between Autism and Measles Vaccine, Even In High Risk Children. IFLScience. [Online] Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-95000-children-found-no-link-between-autism-and-measles-vaccine/ [2018 Oct. 30].

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 2004. Information Technology: Homeland Security Should Better Balance Need for System Integration Strategy with Spending for New and Enhanced Systems. 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

Moton, J.M. 2012. Investigation of low temperature solid oxide fuel cells for air-independent UUV applications. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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.September 11. LCD Soundsystem Tops Album Chart. New York Times: C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Amabilino 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Horner and Gage 2000; Amabilino 2009).

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

Two authors: (Horner and Gage 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chiti et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Plant Science
Abbreviation	Can. J. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)	0008-4220
ISSN (online)	1918-1833
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Horticulture Plant Science