How to format your references using the Journal of Plankton Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Plankton Research (JPR). 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

Hunter, T. (2013) Retrospective. Tony Pawson (1952-2013). Science, 341, 1078.

A journal article with 2 authors

West, P. M. and Packer, C. (2002) Sexual selection, temperature, and the lion’s mane. Science, 297, 1339–1343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, Z.-D., Takagi, K., and Matsushima, F. (2005) Separation and conversion dynamics of four nuclear spin isomers of ethylene. Science, 310, 1938–1941.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Izard, T., Evans, G., Borgon, R. A., Rush, C. L., Bricogne, G., and Bois, P. R. J. (2004) Vinculin activation by talin through helical bundle conversion. Nature, 427, 171–175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramamoorti, S., Morrison, D. E., III, Koletar, J. W., and Pope, K. R. (2013) A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Senechal, M. (ed) (2013) Shaping Space: Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kutnick, P. and Blatchford, P. (2014) Improving the Effectiveness of Collaborative Group Work at KS2: Effects on Pupil Attainment, Classroom Behaviour and Attitudes. In Blatchford, P. (ed), Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms: The SPRinG Approach. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 103–127.

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 Plankton Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016) New Theory Of Gravity Tries To Explain Dark Matter. 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 (1973) Federal Catalog Program: Progress and Problems in Attaining a Uniform Identification System for Supplies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Heitz, S. L. (2017) A Mindfulness Approach to Help Teachers And Staff Provide Support to High School Students: A Self-Instructional Curriculum.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2016) Predicting the Staying Power of ‘The Jungle Book’. New York Times, C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hunter, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (West and Packer, 2002; Hunter, 2013).

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

Two authors: (West and Packer, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Izard et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plankton Research
ISSN (print)	0142-7873
ISSN (online)	1464-3774
Scope