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

Allen JF. 2003. Botany. State transitions--a question of balance. Science. 299(5612):1530–1532.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raviv U, Klein J. 2002. Fluidity of bound hydration layers. Science. 297(5586):1540–1543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cooper TF, O’Leary RA, Lough JM. 2012. Growth of Western Australian corals in the anthropocene. Science. 335(6068):593–596.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Togan E, Chu Y, Trifonov AS, Jiang L, Maze J, Childress L, Dutt MVG, Sørensen AS, Hemmer PR, Zibrov AS, Lukin MD. 2010. Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit. Nature. 466(7307):730–734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zepernick H-J, Finger A. 2005. Pseudo Random Signal Processing. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd,.

An edited book

Pimentel D, Peshin R, editors. 2014. Integrated Pest Management: Pesticide Problems, Vol.3. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Feng Q, Zhao W, Yu X, Shi Y. 2016. Exploration of Integrated Course Project Mode of the Internet of Things Engineering Based on the Relevance Theory. In: Che W, Han Q, Wang H, Jing W, Peng S, Lin J, Sun G, Song X, Song H, Lu Z, editors. Social Computing: Second International Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2016, Harbin, China, August 20-22, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Singapore: Springer; p. 26–31.

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

Luntz S. 2015. First Snakes Had Cute Ankles And Toes. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-snakes-had-cute-ankles-and-toes/

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. 1987. University Funding: Information on the Role of Peer Review at NSF and NIH. 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

Lindeboom TN. 2014. A new home for transitioning youth: 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

Neuman W. 2013. Mayor Ousted In Colombia After Claims Of Bungling. New York Times.:A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Raviv and Klein 2002; Allen 2003).

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

Two authors: (Raviv and Klein 2002)
Three or more authors: (Togan et al. 2010)

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