How to format your references using the Horticultural Plant Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Horticultural Plant Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Snieckus, V., 2015. Richard Heck (1931-2015). Nature 527, 306.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhalerao, S., Clandinin, T.R., 2012. Cell biology. Vitamin K2 takes charge. Science 336, 1241–1242.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yan, S., Huse, D.A., White, S.R., 2011. Spin-liquid ground state of the S = 1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Science 332, 1173–1176.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, H.-D., Chen, Y.-H., Lin, H.-F., Tao, H.-S., Liu, W.-M., 2014. Antiferromagnetic metal and Mott transition on Shastry-Sutherland lattice. Sci. Rep. 4, 4829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rombach, G., 2010. Spannbetonbau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Balogh, A., 2008. The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle, Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bettinson, V., 2016. Surviving Times of Austerity: Preserving the Specialist Domestic Violence Court Provision, in: Hilder, S., Bettinson, V. (Eds.), Domestic Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Protection, Prevention and Intervention. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 81–103.

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 Horticultural Plant Journal.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2017. We’re In Danger Of Losing Emperor Penguins As They Can’t Adapt To Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/were-in-danger-of-losing-emperor-penguins-as-they-cant-adapt-to-climate-change/ (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, 2005. Student Aid And Postsecondary Tax Preferences: Limited Research Exists on Effectiveness of Tools to Assist Students and Families through Title IV Student Aid and Tax Preferences (No. GAO-05-684). 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

Hankins, S., 2010. A policy analysis of the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (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

(nyt), S.K., 2001. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Examining The Kursk. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Snieckus, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bhalerao and Clandinin, 2012; Snieckus, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bhalerao and Clandinin, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Horticultural Plant Journal
Abbreviation	Hortic. Plant J.
ISSN (print)	2468-0141
Scope