How to format your references using the Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Tilman, D. 2000. Causes, consequences and ethics of biodiversity. Nature 405: 208–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mehta, M.P., and Baross, J.A. 2006. Nitrogen fixation at 92 degrees C by a hydrothermal vent archaeon. Science 314: 1783–1786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hnasko, T.S., Sotak, B.N., and Palmiter, R.D. 2005. Morphine reward in dopamine-deficient mice. Nature 438: 854–857.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Takehara, H., Nagaoka, A., Noguchi, J., Akagi, T., Kasai, H., and Ichiki, T. 2014. Lab-on-a-brain: implantable micro-optical fluidic devices for neural cell analysis in vivo. Sci. Rep. 4: 6721.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maini, A.K., and Agrawal, V. 2006. Satellite Technology Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sharma, D. 2016. Biosurfactants of Lactic Acid Bacteria Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Petzoldt, A., Bulygin, S., and Buchmann, J. 2010. CyclicRainbow – A Multivariate Signature Scheme with a Partially Cyclic Public Key In: Gong, G., and K.C. Gupta, Eds., Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2010: 11th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 33–48.

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 Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2014. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/outback-insects-build-little-houses-keep-drying-out/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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 2008. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Fonfa, S.L. 2008. The impact of increased security on the employment options and lives of people with severe disabilities. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Koblin, J. 2017. Netflix Lets Viewers Pick the Plot. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tilman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Tilman, 2000; Mehta and Baross, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mehta and Baross, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Takehara et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences
Abbreviation	CRC Crit. Rev. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)	0735-2689
ISSN (online)	1549-7836
Scope	Plant Science