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

Anson L (2009) Membrane protein biophysics. Nature 459:343

A journal article with 2 authors

Bauch CT, Galvani AP (2013) Epidemiology. Social factors in epidemiology. Science 342:47–49

A journal article with 3 authors

Fontana L, Partridge L, Longo VD (2010) Extending healthy life span--from yeast to humans. Science 328:321–326

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Donati J-F, Paletou F, Bouvier J, Ferreira J (2005) Direct detection of a magnetic field in the innermost regions of an accretion disk. Nature 438:466–469

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexander M, Walkenbach J (2012) 101 Ready-to-Use Excel® Macros. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mateo CR, Gómez J, Villalaín J, González-Ros JM (eds) (2006) Protein-Lipid Interactions: New Approaches and Emerging Concepts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gheorghe G, Neuhaus S, Crispo B (2010) xESB: An Enterprise Service Bus for Access and Usage Control Policy Enforcement. In: Nishigaki M, Jøsang A, Murayama Y, Marsh S (eds) Trust Management IV: 4th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2010, Morioka, Japan, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 63–78

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) New Metal Alloy Four Times Stronger Than Titanium Could Revolutionize Prosthetics. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-metal-alloy-four-times-stronger-than-titanium-could-revolutionize-prosthetics/. 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 (1991) Transportation Infrastructure: Preserving the Nation’s Investment in the Interstate Highway System. 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

Cooper T (2009) Biting Animals. 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

Williams J (2017) A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel. New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anson 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Anson 2009; Bauch and Galvani 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bauch and Galvani 2013)
Three or more authors: (Donati et al. 2005)

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