How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Botany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Botany. 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	Download the output style file
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

Pearson H. 2002. Breast-cancer survey sets screening age for women. Nature 416, 251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atkinson T, Leeder M. 2008. Geology. Canyon cutting on a grand time scale. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319, 1343–1344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grigoryan G, Reinke AW, Keating AE. 2009. Design of protein-interaction specificity gives selective bZIP-binding peptides. Nature 458, 859–864.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yoshihara M, Adolfsen B, Galle KT, Littleton JT. 2005. Retrograde signaling by Syt 4 induces presynaptic release and synapse-specific growth. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, 858–863.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros D, Lannoo K. 2004. The Euro Capital Market. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mehdipour P (Ed.). 2013. Telomere Territory and Cancer. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Savo V, Arndt UM. 2014. From Learning to Teaching: Bridging Students’ Experience and Teachers’ Expectations. In: Quave CL, ed. Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences. New York, NY: Springer, 47–58.

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 Journal of Experimental Botany.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. Scientists Have Discovered A Fourth State Of Water. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-quantum-state-water-discovered/. Accessed October 2018.

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

Niedringhaus B. 2012. Best Practice in Early Reading Intervention: Implementing a Reading Intervention Program to Reach Below Level Readers. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Cowen T. 2014. Gauging the Gender Gap, Present and Future. New York Times, BU7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pearson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Pearson, 2002; Atkinson and Leeder, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Atkinson and Leeder, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yoshihara et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Botany
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0022-0957
ISSN (online)	1460-2431
Scope	Plant Science Physiology