How to format your references using the Functional Plant Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Functional Plant Biology. 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

Maldovan M (2013) Sound and heat revolutions in phononics. Nature 503, 209–217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu H, Bunn HF (2001) Signal transduction. How do cells sense oxygen? Science (New York, NY) 292, 449–451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vogelstein B, Alberts B, Shine K (2002) Genetics. Please don’t call it cloning! Science (New York, NY) 295, 1237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jin C, Zhang J, Li X, Yang X, Li J, Liu J (2013) Injectable 3-D fabrication of medical electronics at the target biological tissues. Scientific Reports 3, 3442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins BR (2009) ‘Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Frolov IE (2005) ‘The Arctic Basin: Results from the Russian Drifting Stations.’ (ZM Gudkovich, VF Radionov, AV Shirochkov, and LA Timokhov, Eds.). (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Bonnoit AC, Wittmann R (2012) Consequences for Circuit Design and Case Studies. ‘Process Variations and Probabilistic Integrated Circuit Design’. (Eds M Dietrich, J Haase) pp. 181–213. (Springer: New York, NY)

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 Functional Plant Biology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) A Team Member’s View Of All The Work On Earth It Took To Get New Horizons To Pluto. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/team-member-s-view-all-work-earth-it-took-get-new-horizons-pluto/.

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 (1976) Information on the Requirement for Strategic Airlift. U.S. Government Printing Office, PSAD-76-148. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

LaPorte M (2017) Depression and Rumination as a Predictor for Types of Substances Abused. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Feeney K (2010) Charleston Chews And Sugar Babies: Fistfuls of Nostalgia. New York Times NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maldovan 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Zhu and Bunn 2001; Maldovan 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Bunn 2001)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Functional Plant Biology
Abbreviation	Funct. Plant Biol.
ISSN (print)	1445-4408
ISSN (online)	1445-4416
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science