How to format your references using the Environmental and Experimental Botany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental and Experimental Botany. 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

Lehn, J.-M., 2002. Toward self-organization and complex matter. Science 295, 2400–2403.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lane, N., Martin, W., 2010. The energetics of genome complexity. Nature 467, 929–934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wearn, O.R., Reuman, D.C., Ewers, R.M., 2013. Response to comment on “Extinction debt and windows of conservation opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon.” Science 339, 271.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ourjoumtsev, A., Jeong, H., Tualle-Brouri, R., Grangier, P., 2007. Generation of optical “Schrödinger cats” from photon number states. Nature 448, 784–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Westermeier, R., 2004. Electrophoresis in Practice. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Barga, R., 2015. Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, Second Edition. ed. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Rusyaeva, E., 2014. Cognitive Techniques of Knowledge Formation, in: Kravets, A., Shcherbakov, M., Kultsova, M., Iijima, T. (Eds.), Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: 11th Joint Conference, JCKBSE 2014, Volgograd, Russia, September 17-20, 2014. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 40–48.

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 Environmental and Experimental Botany.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. New Dinosaur Discovered, Nicknamed “Chicken From Hell” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. Air Traffic Control: Software Problems at Control Centers Need Immediate Attention (No. IMTEC-92-1). 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

Lambert, M., 2015. Generational Differences in the Workplace: The Perspectives of Three Generations on Career Mobility (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2014. Filling Pages Not Difficult With a Life Lived Large. New York Times SP10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lehn, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lane and Martin, 2010; Lehn, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Lane and Martin, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ourjoumtsev et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental and Experimental Botany
Abbreviation	Environ. Exp. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0098-8472
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science