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

Vogel, G., 2000. GENOMICS: Sanger Will Sequence Zebrafish Genome. Science 290, 1671b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasare, C., Medzhitov, R., 2005. Control of B-cell responses by Toll-like receptors. Nature 438, 364–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hosoya, T., Baccus, S.A., Meister, M., 2005. Dynamic predictive coding by the retina. Nature 436, 71–77.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rupert, T.J., Gianola, D.S., Gan, Y., Hemker, K.J., 2009. Experimental observations of stress-driven grain boundary migration. Science 326, 1686–1690.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hackshaw, A., 2010. How to Write a Grant Application. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Wobus, A.M., Boheler, K.R. (Eds.), 2006. Stem Cells, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kamat, R.K., Shinde, S.A., Shelake, V.G., 2009. Arithmetic Core Design and Design Reuse of Soft IP Cores, in: Shinde, S.A., Shelake, V.G. (Eds.), Unleash the System On Chip Using FPGAs and Handel C. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 81–113.

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

Davis, J., 2016. AIDS Epidemic In Australia Declared “Over” By Experts [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/aids-epidemic-in-australia-declared-over-by-experts/ (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, 1989. Transportation Infrastructure: Panelists’ Remarks at New Directions in Surface Transportation Seminar (No. RCED-90-81B). 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

Green, B., 2014. Bullying of Individuals with Disabilities on a College Campus: A Qualitative Study (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

Kolomatsky, M., 2017. August’s Most Popular Listings. New York Times RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogel, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Pasare and Medzhitov, 2005; Vogel, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Pasare and Medzhitov, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Rupert et al., 2009)

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