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

Epstein, I.R., 2007. Chemistry. Can droplets and bubbles think? Science 315, 775–776.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yusufzai, T., Kadonaga, J.T., 2008. HARP is an ATP-driven annealing helicase. Science 322, 748–750.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohmann, C., Myhr, K.L., Wong, R.O.L., 2002. Transmitter-evoked local calcium release stabilizes developing dendrites. Nature 418, 177–181.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhu, R., Wang, Q., Ding, W., Wang, C., Hou, L., Ma, D., 2014. Penguins significantly increased phosphine formation and phosphorus contribution in maritime Antarctic soils. Sci. Rep. 4, 7055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camman, C., Fiore, C., Livolsi, L., Querro, P., 2017. Supply Chain Management and Business Performance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Huang, S., 2016. Electromagnetic Ultrasonic Guided Waves, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Fiedler, J., Heera, V., 2014. Superconducting Gallium Implanted Germanium, in: Skorupa, W., Schmidt, H. (Eds.), Subsecond Annealing of Advanced Materials: Annealing by Lasers, Flash Lamps and Swift Heavy Ions, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–78.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. NASA To Create The Coldest Place In Space [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-to-create-the-coldest-place-in-space/ (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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Medicare and the Delivery of Health Services Are at Risk (No. T-AIMD-99-89). 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

Cappiello, D.M., 2010. Minding the gap: Western export controls and soviet technology policy during the 1960s (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2016. The Ghost in the Machine May Be Your Soul. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Epstein, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Epstein, 2007; Yusufzai and Kadonaga, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Yusufzai and Kadonaga, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al., 2014)

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