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

Robinson, G.E. 2015. EVOLUTION. Dissecting diversity in the social brain. Science 350: 1310–1312.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schraidt, O., and Marlovits, T.C. 2011. Three-dimensional model of Salmonella’s needle complex at subnanometer resolution. Science 331: 1192–1195.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregg, M.C., Sanford, T.B., and Winkel, D.P. 2003. Reduced mixing from the breaking of internal waves in equatorial waters. Nature 422: 513–515.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Onishi, Y., Ueha, T., Kawamoto, T., Hara, H., Toda, M., Harada, R., Minoda, M., Kurosaka, M., and Akisue, T. 2014. Regulation of mitochondrial proliferation by PGC-1α induces cellular apoptosis in musculoskeletal malignancies. Sci. Rep. 4: 3916.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor, K., Aardema, F., and Pélissier, M.-C. 2006. Beyond Reasonable Doubt Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gałecki, A. 2013. Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using R: A Step-by-Step Approach New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bode, A.S., and Tordoir, J.H.M. 2013. Vascular Access For Hemodialysis Therapy In: Azar, A.T., Ed., Modelling and Control of Dialysis Systems: Volume 1: Modeling Techniques of Hemodialysis Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 235–303.

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

Andrews, R. 2017. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/americas-cicadas-mysteriously-appearing-four-years-early/ (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 2007. Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth 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

Burnley, T. 2012. Psychotherapist as Modern-Day Shaman. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Hartocollis, A. 2013. Two Wills, One Private Heiress. New York Times MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Schraidt and Marlovits, 2011; Robinson, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schraidt and Marlovits, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Onishi 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