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

Schölkopf B (2015) Artificial intelligence: Learning to see and act. Nature 518:486–487

A journal article with 2 authors

Brunet J, Liston A (2001) Polyploidy and gender dimorphism. Science 291:1441

A journal article with 3 authors

Moeller S, Freiwald WA, Tsao DY (2008) Patches with links: a unified system for processing faces in the macaque temporal lobe. Science 320:1355–1359

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Goyal A, Sokalingam S, Hwang K-S, Lee S-G (2014) Identification of an ideal-like fingerprint for a protein fold using overlapped conserved residues based approach. Sci Rep 4:5643

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Bosse JG (2002) Signaling in Telecommunication Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA

An edited book

Rieves RA (2012) Investor Relations for the Emerging Company, Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Martellini M, Meulenbelt S, Paturej K (2013) Cyber Security for Chemical Plants. In: Martellini M (ed) Cyber Security: Deterrence and IT Protection for Critical Infrastructures. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 37–51

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 E (2015) The Earth’s Inner Core Gives Up More Of Its Magnetic Secrets. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/earth-s-inner-core-gives-its-more-its-magnetic-secrets/. 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 (1995) Amtrak: Early Progress Made in Implementing Strategic and Business Plan, but Obstacles Remain. 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

Liao W (2010) The epitope specificity of the human anti-Candida albicans antibody M1g1. 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

Branch J (2017) The Ultimate Hunt: Sheep. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schölkopf 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Brunet and Liston 2001; Schölkopf 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brunet and Liston 2001)
Three or more authors: (Goyal et al. 2014)

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