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

Kuhn, M. (2015). Cardiology: A big-hearted molecule. Nature, 519(7544), 416–417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlapbach, L., & Züttel, A. (2001). Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications. Nature, 414(6861), 353–358.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, D., Amagai, S., & Bricken, J. (2012). Science education. Engaging teachers, scientists, and multimedia to promote learning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6088), 1509.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Miller, M. J., Wei, S. H., Parker, I., & Cahalan, M. D. (2002). Two-photon imaging of lymphocyte motility and antigen response in intact lymph node. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5574), 1869–1873.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosplock, K. (2017). The Complete Direct Investing Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Geddes, C. D. (Ed.). (2010). Reviews in Fluorescence 2008 (1st ed., Vol. 2008). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Papadimitriou, P. (2011). Fiscal Rules in the EU: Time to Rethink and Start from the Basics. In K. E. Botsiou & A. Klapsis (Eds.), The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011: The Global Economic Crisis and the Case of Greece (pp. 29–44). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, August 8). NASA Has Mapped The Fragmented Underbelly Of The Greenland Ice Sheet. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1976). Assistance Provided for the Construction of Higher Education Academic Facilities (No. 089087). 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

Pugh, A. N. (2010). Adoption is an option: A personal narrative (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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, December 4). Justices Express Skepticism in a Discrimination Case. New York Times, p. A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kuhn 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kuhn 2015; Schlapbach and Züttel 2001).

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

Two authors: (Schlapbach and Züttel 2001)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al. 2002)

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