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

Boyd RW (2015) Nuclear physics: Neutrons with a twist. Nature 525:462–464

A journal article with 2 authors

Montpetit B, Weis K (2012) Cell biology. An alternative route for nuclear mRNP export by membrane budding. Science 336:809–810

A journal article with 3 authors

Canfield DE, Poulton SW, Narbonne GM (2007) Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science 315:92–95

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Williams AG, Rayson MP, Jubb M, et al (2000) The ACE gene and muscle performance. Nature 403:614

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gilmore R, Lefranc M (2011) The Topology of Chaos. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Singh H (2016) Plasma-based Radar Cross Section Reduction, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Kong L-A, Wu W-J (2012) The Construction of the Security Ability System in Coal Enterprise. In: Jin D, Lin S (eds) Advances in Electronic Engineering, Communication and Management Vol.2: Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Electronic Engineering, Communication and Management (EECM 2011), held on December 24–25, 2011, Beijing, China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 19–24

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

Davis J (2015) Stem Cell Treatment Used To Cure Age-Related Blindness. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cell-treatment-used-trial-cure-age-related-blindness/. 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) Highway Finance: States’ Expanding Use of Tolling Illustrates Diverse Challenges and Strategies. 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

Mazon WE (2009) The effect of the Breath Builder^TM on various lung functions and musical performance abilities of clarinet players. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Bogdanich W (2017) The Sheriff’s War. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyd 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Montpetit and Weis 2012; Boyd 2015).

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

Two authors: (Montpetit and Weis 2012)
Three or more authors: (Williams et al. 2000)

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

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