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

Klein, J. 2009. Chemistry. Repair or replacement--a joint perspective. Science 323: 47–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wigley, T.M., and Raper, S.C. 2001. Interpretation of high projections for global-mean warming. Science 293: 451–454.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howarth, R.W., Ingraffea, A., and Engelder, T. 2011. Natural gas: Should fracking stop? Nature 477: 271–275.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, G., Abdi, K., Jiang, Y., Michaely, P., Bennett, V., and Marszalek, P.E. 2006. Nanospring behaviour of ankyrin repeats. Nature 440: 246–249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Louis, J.-P. 2011. Control of Synchronous Motors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Alberts, G., and Oldenziel, R. (eds.) 2014. Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Yahalom, J., Rimner, A., and Tsang, R.W. 2011. Salvage Therapy for Relapsed and Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma. Pages 31–44 in L. Specht and J. Yahalom, eds. Radiotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Andrew, E. 2015.August 4. Baby Raccoon Climbs Tree With A Lot Of Help From Its Mom. IFLScience. [Online] Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-raccoon-climbs-tree-lot-help-its-mom/ [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 1989. Aviation Safety: Chicago Center Work Force Views of the Air Traffic Control System. 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

Crumlish, S.B. 2014. Domingo Chileno: An Overture for Orchestra. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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.January 30. The Weeknd Remains at No. 1 on the Charts. 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 (Klein 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Wigley and Raper 2001; Klein 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wigley and Raper 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2006)

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