How to format your references using the Journal of Plant Growth Regulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Nichols CG (2006) KATP channels as molecular sensors of cellular metabolism. Nature 440:470–476

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemphill CS, Sampat B (2013) Intellectual property. Drug patents at the Supreme Court. Science 339:1386–1387

A journal article with 3 authors

Powner MW, Gerland B, Sutherland JD (2009) Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions. Nature 459:239–242

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang X-G, Siveter DJ, Waloszek D, Maas A (2007) An epipodite-bearing crown-group crustacean from the Lower Cambrian. Nature 449:595–598

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D’Andrea A, Sjogren J (2013) Veterinary Technician’s Large Animal Daily Reference Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hell R, Dahl C, Knaff D, Leustek T (eds) (2008) Sulfur Metabolism in Phototrophic Organisms. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Chen X, Sun J, Sun M (2014) A Hybrid Model of Connectors in Cyber-Physical Systems. In: Merz S, Pang J (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2014, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, November 3-5, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–74

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 Growth Regulation.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) How Much Energy Could We Generate By Burning All Our Poop? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-much-energy-could-we-generate-by-burning-all-our-poop/. 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 (2005) Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Chinese Version). 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

Barrett C (2010) Racial congruence and its effects on social integration and school involvement: A multi-level model. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Wagner J (2016) After Striking Out, Nationals Swing a Trade. New York Times B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nichols 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Nichols 2006; Hemphill and Sampat 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hemphill and Sampat 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
Abbreviation	J. Plant Growth Regul.
ISSN (print)	0721-7595
ISSN (online)	1435-8107
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science