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

Stafford-Smith, M. 2014. UN sustainability goals need quantified targets. Nature 513: 281.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liebman, S.W., and Haber, J.E. 2013. Retrospective. Fred Sherman (1932-2013). Science 342: 1059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levin, E.J., Quick, M., and Zhou, M. 2009. Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of the kidney urea transporter. Nature 462: 757–761.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yu, M., Wu, P., Widelitz, R.B., and Chuong, C.-M. 2002. The morphogenesis of feathers. Nature 420: 308–312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meyr, H., Moeneclaey, M., and Fechtel, S.A. 2001. Digital Communication Receivers: Synchronization, Channel Estimation, and Signal Processing New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cheng, K.S., and G.E. Romero, Eds., 2005. Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources: A Second Workshop on the Nature of the High-Energy Unidentified Sources Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Spiotta, M., Bottrighi, A., Giordano, L., and Theseider Dupré, D. 2014. Conformance Analysis of the Execution of Clinical Guidelines with Basic Medical Knowledge and Clinical Terminology In: Miksch, S., D. Riaño, and A. ten Teije, Eds., Knowledge Representation for Health Care: 6th International Workshop, KR4HC 2014, Held as Part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 21, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 62–77.

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

Luntz, S. 2014. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/congress-tells-scientists-ipcc-climate-report-not-science/ (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 2000. Highway Infrastructure: FHWA’s Model for Estimating Highway Needs Is Generally Reasonable, Despite Limitations 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

Mac Garrigle, E.F. 2006. A validation of the enterprise management engineering approach to knowledge management systems engineering. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Kenigsberg, B. 2016. Review: In ‘Tank 432,’ on the Run, but Stuck in a Morass. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stafford-Smith, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Liebman and Haber, 2013; Stafford-Smith, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Liebman and Haber, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2002)

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