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

Plutzky, J. (2003). Medicine. PPARs as therapeutic targets: reverse cardiology? Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5644), 406–407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sagarin, R., & Micheli, F. (2001). Climate change in nontraditional data sets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5543), 811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Q., Piston, D. W., & Goodman, R. H. (2002). Regulation of corepressor function by nuclear NADH. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5561), 1895–1897.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bennett, M. R., Pang, W. L., Ostroff, N. A., Baumgartner, B. L., Nayak, S., Tsimring, L. S., & Hasty, J. (2008). Metabolic gene regulation in a dynamically changing environment. Nature, 454(7208), 1119–1122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hannam, J. (2017). What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dekhtyar, Y., Katashev, A., & Lancere, L. (Eds.). (2013). International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, 10-12 October, 2012, Riga, Latvia (Vol. 38). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Güner-Akdogan, G. (2012). Postgraduate Education Workshops as a Model of Education and Discussion Platforms. In M. A. R. B. Castanho & G. Güner-Akdogan (Eds.), The Researching, Teaching, and Learning Triangle (pp. 35–54). New York, NY: 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

Fang, J. (2014, August 12). The Moon Might Still Have Partly Molten Insides. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/moon-might-still-have-partly-molten-insides/. 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. (1995). Job Corps: High Costs and Mixed Results Raise Questions About Program’s Effectiveness (No. HEHS-95-180). 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

Keep, A. W. (2013). A nanopass framework for commercial compiler development (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, September 10). Puerto Rico Unveils Painful Plan for Islanders, and Bond Holders. 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 (Plutzky 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Plutzky 2003; Sagarin and Micheli 2001).

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

Two authors: (Sagarin and Micheli 2001)
Three or more authors: (Bennett et al. 2008)

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