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

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

Brower V. 2011. Epigenetics: Unravelling the cancer code. Nature. 471(7339):S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hilfinger A, Paulsson J. 2015. Systems biology: Defiant daughters and coordinated cousins. Nature. 519(7544):422–423.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fotso H, Mikelsons K, Freericks JK. 2014. Thermalization of field driven quantum systems. Sci Rep. 4:4699.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Beck B, Driessens G, Goossens S, Youssef KK, Kuchnio A, Caauwe A, Sotiropoulou PA, Loges S, Lapouge G, Candi A, et al. 2011. A vascular niche and a VEGF-Nrp1 loop regulate the initiation and stemness of skin tumours. Nature. 478(7369):399–403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rooney T. 2010. IP Address Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brazil M. 2015. Optimal Interconnection Trees in the Plane: Theory, Algorithms and Applications. Zachariasen M, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Heinzel A, König U. 2009. Nanotechnology for Fuel Cells. In: Leite ER, editor. Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Energy Production and Storage. Boston, MA: Springer US; p. 151–183.

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 Israel Journal of Plant Sciences.

Blog post

Fang J. 2014. Starving Female Mantises Eat Males Without Having Sex First. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/starving-female-mantises-eat-males-without-having-sex-first/

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. 2003. College Completion: Additional Efforts Could Help Education with Its Completion Goals. 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

Copeland EJ. 2010. A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness [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

Waldstein D, Rothenberg B. 2016. They Built a Roof. It Got Loud. Now What? New York Times.:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brower 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brower 2011; Hilfinger and Paulsson 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hilfinger and Paulsson 2015)
Three or more authors: (Beck et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Israel Journal of Plant Sciences
Abbreviation	Isr. J. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)	0792-9978
ISSN (online)	2223-8980
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science