How to format your references using the International Journal of Plant Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Plant Sciences (IJPS). 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

Matthews BW 2000 Paul Sigler (1934-2000). Nature 403:848.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levitan DR, DL Ferrell 2006 Selection on gamete recognition proteins depends on sex, density, and genotype frequency. Science 312:267–269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pendry JB, Y Luo, R Zhao 2015 Transforming the optical landscape. Science 348:521–524.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lo Celso C, HE Fleming, JW Wu, CX Zhao, S Miake-Lye, J Fujisaki, D Côté, DW Rowe, CP Lin, DT Scadden 2009 Live-animal tracking of individual haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in their niche. Nature 457:92–96.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner D 2011 A History of Modern Drama. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gansäuer A ed. 2006 Radicals in Synthesis II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nigmatullin RR 2010 New Noninvasive Methods for ‘Reading’ of Random Sequences and Their Applications in Nanotechnology. In: Baleanu D, Guvenc ZB, Machado JAT, editors. New Trends in Nanotechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 43–56.

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 International Journal of Plant Sciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J 2015 Sep 14 Terahertz Radiation Breakthrough Could Lead To 100 Times Faster Wireless Networks. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/terahertz-radiation-breakthrough-could-lead-100-times-faster-wireless-networks/

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 1989 ADP Modernization: IRS Needs to Assess Design Alternatives for Its Electronic Filing System. 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

Nguyen M 2010 Therapeutic groups for adults with mental illness and their caregivers: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kishkovsky S 2008 Mar 4 The Bolshoi Ballet Appoints a New Artistic Director. New York Times:E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Matthews 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Matthews 2000; Levitan and Ferrell 2006).

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

Two authors: (Levitan and Ferrell 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lo Celso et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Plant Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)	1058-5893
ISSN (online)	1537-5315
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science