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

de Waal, F.B.M., 2009. Darwin’s last laugh. Nature 460, 175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, B.H., Kwon, J.W., 2014. Metal catalyst for low-temperature growth of controlled zinc oxide nanowires on arbitrary substrates. Sci. Rep. 4, 4379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Belmonte, A., Di Clemente, R., Buldyrev, S.V., 2014. The Italian primary school-size distribution and the city-size: a complex nexus. Sci. Rep. 4, 5301.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, H.H., Isaacs, F.J., Carr, P.A., Sun, Z.Z., Xu, G., Forest, C.R., Church, G.M., 2009. Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution. Nature 460, 894–898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, D., 2008. Parris’s Standard Form of Building Contract. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Sawant, N., 2013. Big Data Application Architecture Q & A: A Problem-Solution Approach. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Ife, A., 2007. A Role for English as Lingua Franca in the Foreign Language Classroom?, in: Soler, E.A., Jordà, M.P.S. (Eds.), Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 79–100.

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

Hale, T., 2016. 100,000 Flying Foxes Are Causing Chaos In A Small Australian Town [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/100000-flying-foxes-are-causing-chaos-small-australian-town/ (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, 1996. Revision of FCC Rules to Ensure Compatibility with Enhanced 911 Emergency Calling Systems (No. OGC-96-34). 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

Beahm, A.C., 2009. The political ecology of tourism development in the Ecuadorian Amazon (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., 2011. Scandals Test the N.C.A.A.’s Top Rules Enforcer. 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 (de Waal, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (de Waal, 2009; Kim and Kwon, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Kwon, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2009)

About the journal

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