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

Eisenstein M. 2010. Diversity: Of beans and genes. Nature 468, S13-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor JRA, Kier WM. 2003. Switching skeletons: hydrostatic support in molting crabs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, 209–210.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behringer DC, Butler MJ, Shields JD. 2006. Ecology: avoidance of disease by social lobsters. Nature 441, 421.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ginsberg J, Mohebbi MH, Patel RS, Brammer L, Smolinski MS, Brilliant L. 2009. Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data. Nature 457, 1012–1014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. 2008. Inherently Safer Chemical Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nijholt A, Romão T, Reidsma D (Eds.). 2012. Advances in Computer Entertainment: 9th International Conference, ACE 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 3-5, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Seidel GD, Chatzigeorgiou G, Ren X, Lagoudas DC. 2014. Multiscale Modeling of Multifunctional Fuzzy Fibers Based on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. In: Tserpes KI, Silvestre N, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science. Modeling of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and their Composites. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 135–176.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Enzyme System Helps Boost Exercise Tolerance. 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. 2011. Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Federal Teacher Quality Programs. 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

Farhad K. 2015. Development of a web-based educational resource on the most effective micronutrients in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Kelly DA. 2004. 36 Hours | Portsmouth, N.H. New York Times, F5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Taylor and Kier, 2003; Eisenstein, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Kier, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ginsberg et al., 2009)

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