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

Clapham, D.E. 2003. TRP channels as cellular sensors. Nature 426: 517–524.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bada, J.L., and Lazcano, A. 2003. Perceptions of science. Prebiotic soup--revisiting the Miller experiment. Science 300: 745–746.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arantes-Oliveira, N., Berman, J.R., and Kenyon, C. 2003. Healthy animals with extreme longevity. Science 302: 611.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, J.V., Ren, P.-G., Avsian-Kretchmer, O., Luo, C.-W., Rauch, R., Klein, C., and Hsueh, A.J.W. 2005. Obestatin, a peptide encoded by the ghrelin gene, opposes ghrelin’s effects on food intake. Science 310: 996–999.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klee, L. 2015. International Construction Contract Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Leung, H., Popescu, E., Cao, Y., Lau, R.W.H., and Nejdl, W. (eds.) 2011. Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2011: 10th International Conference, Hong Kong, China, December 8-10, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ohbayashi, M., Manzouri, B., Morohoshi, K., Fukuda, K., and Ono, S.J. 2010. The Role of Histamine in Ocular Allergy. Pages 43–52 in R.L. Thurmond, ed. Histamine in Inflammation. Springer US, Boston, MA.

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. 2014.July 16. New Flying Dino Had Four Wings And Longest Known Feathers. IFLScience. [Online] Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-flying-dino-had-four-limbs-and-longest-known-feathers/ [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 1993. Student Achievement Standards and Testing. 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

Brandom, B.M. 2009. Spiritual and emotional needs of young adults who are members of mainstream Protestant churches. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

de la MERCED, M.J. 2017.May 7. Buffett Calls Health Bill A Giveaway to Wealthy. New York Times: A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clapham 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bada and Lazcano 2003; Clapham 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bada and Lazcano 2003)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2005)

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