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

Bender E (2015) Big data in biomedicine: 4 big questions. Nature 527:S19

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleinberg J, Lawrence S (2001) Network analysis. The structure of the Web. Science 294:1849–1850

A journal article with 3 authors

Coultas L, Chawengsaksophak K, Rossant J (2005) Endothelial cells and VEGF in vascular development. Nature 438:937–945

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lerosey G, de Rosny J, Tourin A, Fink M (2007) Focusing beyond the diffraction limit with far-field time reversal. Science 315:1120–1122

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khatib T, Elmenreich W (2016) Modeling of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB ®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lepri S (ed) (2016) Thermal Transport in Low Dimensions: From Statistical Physics to Nanoscale Heat Transfer. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nipkow T, Klein G (2014) Isar: a Language for Structured Proofs. In: Klein G (ed) Concrete Semantics: With Isabelle/HOL. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 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 Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2015) Gluten-Free Food Is Not Healthier But Costs More. In: IFLScience. 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 (2007) Improper Payments: Weaknesses in USAID’s and NASA’s Implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act and Recovery Auditing. 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

Al khuwaildi HA (2010) Green techniques in the healthcare system. 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

Pastan L (2015) The Bridge. New York Times MM28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bender 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kleinberg and Lawrence 2001; Bender 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kleinberg and Lawrence 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lerosey et al. 2007)

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