How to format your references using the Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 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

Basu P (2005) Vaccines on trial. Nature 436:484

A journal article with 2 authors

Grande C, Patel NH (2009) Nodal signalling is involved in left-right asymmetry in snails. Nature 457:1007–1011

A journal article with 3 authors

Gardner TS, Cantor CR, Collins JJ (2000) Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403:339–342

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bell JF 3rd, Lemmon MT, Duxbury TC, et al (2005) Solar eclipses of Phobos and Deimos observed from the surface of Mars. Nature 436:55–57

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pommier S, Gravouil A, Combescure A, Moës N (2013) Extended Finite Element Method for Crack Propagation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Sharvit K, Halperin E (eds) (2016) A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Vol II, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Heckel R, Torrini P (2010) Stochastic Modelling and Simulation of Mobile Systems. In: Engels G, Lewerentz C, Schäfer W, et al. (eds) Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 87–101

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 Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Plastic Banknotes: New Fingerprint Technique Means Criminals Can’t Avoid Capture. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/plastic-banknotes-new-fingerprint-technique-means-criminals-cant-avoid-capture/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2006) Postsecondary Education: Multiple Tax Preferences and Title IV Student Aid Programs Create a Complex Education Financing Environment. 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

Lofton CD (2012) Mid-Career Transitions: A Qualitative Study Examining the Developmental Relationships, Attitudes, Networks, and Strategies of Frontline Workers that Seek Career Development and Advancement. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Bray C (2017) Payments Firm In Britain Draws 2 Bids For Takeover. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Basu 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Basu 2005; Grande and Patel 2009).

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

Two authors: (Grande and Patel 2009)
Three or more authors: (Bell et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	0971-7811
ISSN (online)	0974-1275
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Biotechnology