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

Orgel LE 2004 Molecular biology. Retrospective: Francis Crick (1916-2004). Science 305:1118.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martí MC, AAR Webb 2014 Plant science: leaf veins share the time of day. Nature 515:352–353.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green DR, L Galluzzi, G Kroemer 2014 Cell biology. Metabolic control of cell death. Science 345:1250256.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu X, W Yao, B Sun, DG Steel, AS Bracker, D Gammon, LJ Sham 2009 Optically controlled locking of the nuclear field via coherent dark-state spectroscopy. Nature 459:1105–1109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdullaeva Z 2017 Nano- and Biomaterials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Cook WD 2005 Modeling Performance Measurement: Applications and Implementation Issues in DEA. Zhu J, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Abel A, T Coquand, P Dybjer 2008 Verifying a Semantic βη-Conversion Test for Martin-Löf Type Theory. In: Audebaud P, Paulin-Mohring C, editors. Mathematics of Program Construction: 9th International Conference, MPC 2008, Marseille, France, July 15-18, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 29–56.

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

Andrew D 2015 Mar 13 A Day In The Life Of Pi. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/day-life-pi/

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 1997 Results Act: Observations on NASA’s May 1997 Draft Strategic Plan. 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

Bailey CN 2015 The influence of gardens on resilience in older adults living in a continuing care community [Doctoral dissertation]. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.

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

Saslow L 2006 Dec 3 Stony Brook Medical Center Names Chief Executive. New York Times:14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Orgel 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Orgel 2004; Martí and Webb 2014).

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

Two authors: (Martí and Webb 2014)
Three or more authors: (Xu 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