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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Ye J. 2011. Cell biology. Protease sets site-1 on lysosomes. Science. 333(6038):50–51.
A journal article with 2 authors
Vakil A, Engheta N. 2011. Transformation optics using graphene. Science. 332(6035):1291–1294.
A journal article with 3 authors
Hess KL, Corda CJ, Lanese KM. 2011. SPORE series winner. Science Buddies: advancing informal science education. Science. 332(6029):550–551.
A journal article with 12 or more authors
La Spina A, Paolicchi P, Kryszczyńska A, Pravec P. 2004. Retrograde spins of near-Earth asteroids from the Yarkovsky effect. Nature. 428(6981):400–401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Hitz CB, Ewing J, Hecht J. 2012. Introduction to Laser Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Prassler E, Zöllner M, Bischoff R, Burgard W, Haschke R, Hägele M, Lawitzky G, Nebel B, Plöger P, Reiser U, editors. 2012. Towards Service Robots for Everyday Environments: Recent Advances in Designing Service Robots for Complex Tasks in Everyday Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Brasileiro F, Almeida JPA, Carvalho VA, Guizzardi G. 2016. Expressive Multi-level Modeling for the Semantic Web. In: Groth P, Simperl E, Gray A, Sabou M, Krötzsch M, Lecue F, Flöck F, Gil Y, editors. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2016: 15th International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan, October 17–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 53–69.

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
Taub B. 2017. Scientists Once Gave LSD To Dolphins In The Hope Of Learning To Communicate With Them. IFLScience.

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. 1981. Qualifying for Federal Funding of Tribally Controlled Community Colleges. 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
Shan J. 2014. A Theoretical Investigation of Radial Lateral Wells with Shockwave Completion in Shale Gas Reservoirs [Doctoral dissertation]. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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
Dinardo K. 2014. Skin in the Game. New York Times.:TR12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ye 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Vakil and Engheta 2011; Ye 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Vakil and Engheta 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (La Spina et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleIsrael Journal of Plant Sciences
AbbreviationIsr. J. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)0792-9978
ISSN (online)2223-8980
ScopeAgronomy and Crop Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Plant Science

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