How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Plant Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Plant Physiology. 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

Nies, D. H. (2007). Biochemistry. How cells control zinc homeostasis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5845), 1695–1696.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaudioso, J., & Salerno, R. M. (2004). Science and government. Biosecurity and research: minimizing adverse impacts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5671), 687.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baxt, L. A., Garza-Mayers, A. C., & Goldberg, M. B. (2013). Bacterial subversion of host innate immune pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6133), 697–701.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brissett, N. C., Pitcher, R. S., Juarez, R., Picher, A. J., Green, A. J., Dafforn, T. R., et al. (2007). Structure of a NHEJ polymerase-mediated DNA synaptic complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5849), 456–459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beg, D., Kuhlmann, U., Davaine, L., & Braun, B. (2012). Design of Plated Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Wahlster, W., Grallert, H.-J., Wess, S., Friedrich, H., & Widenka, T. (Eds.). (2014). Towards the Internet of Services: The THESEUS Research Program. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Eaton, M. (2007). Evolutionary Humanoid Robotics: Past, Present and Future. In M. Lungarella, F. Iida, J. Bongard, & R. Pfeifer (Eds.), 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Essays Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 42–52). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Indian Journal of Plant Physiology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, July 1). 11 Science Facts That Will Make You Feel Uneasy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/11-science-facts-that-will-make-you-feel-uneasy/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2004). Highlights of a GAO Forum: The Federal Government’s Role in Improving Financial Literacy (No. GAO-05-93SP). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woodard, J. (2012). Emergent properties (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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, March 30). Iconic Retailer in Slow Decline. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nies 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gaudioso and Salerno 2004; Nies 2007).

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

Two authors: (Gaudioso and Salerno 2004)
Three or more authors: (Brissett et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Indian Journal of Plant Physiology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Plant Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0019-5502
ISSN (online)	0974-0252
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science