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

Sandman PM (2009) Pandemics: good hygiene is not enough. Nature 459, 322–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Monk BC, Goffeau A (2008) Outwitting multidrug resistance to antifungals. Science (New York, NY) 321, 367–369.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jablonski D, Roy K, Valentine JW (2006) Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Science (New York, NY) 314, 102–106.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Licciardi JM, Schaefer JM, Taggart JR, Lund DC (2009) Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Peruvian Andes indicate northern climate linkages. Science (New York, NY) 325, 1677–1679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maudlin T (2011) ‘Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity.’ (Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK)

An edited book

Kohnen W, Weissauer R (Eds) (2014) ‘Conformal Field Theory, Automorphic Forms and Related Topics: CFT, Heidelberg, September 19-23, 2011.’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Um B-H, Hanley TR (2008) A Comparison of Simple Rheological Parameters and Simulation Data for Zymomonas mobilis Fermentation Broths with High Substrate Loading in a 3-L Bioreactor. ‘Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held April 29–May 2, 2007, in Denver, Colorado’. (Eds WS Adney, JD McMillan, J Mielenz, KT Klasson) pp. 29–38. (Humana Press: Totowa, NJ)

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 D (2017) Virtual Reality Could Transform Pornography – But There Are Dangers. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/virtual-reality-could-transform-pornography-but-there-are-dangers/.

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 (1982) Patent and Trademark Amendments of 1980 Set the Stage for Uniform Patent Practice by Federal Agencies. U.S. Government Printing Office, PAD-82-32. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chavez G (2017) Creating Integrated, Inquiry Science Lessons Based on Early Childhood Science Activities. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon M, Longman J (2014) Elite Marathoner’s Failed Test Is Another Setback for Kenya. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sandman 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Monk and Goffeau 2008; Sandman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Monk and Goffeau 2008)
Three or more authors: (Licciardi et al. 2009)

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