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

Schmollinger J (2002) Gaining a lot from translation. Nature 418:5

A journal article with 2 authors

Zelzer E, Olsen BR (2003) The genetic basis for skeletal diseases. Nature 423:343–348

A journal article with 3 authors

Spinner M, Westhoff G, Gorb SN (2014) Subdigital setae of chameleon feet: friction-enhancing microstructures for a wide range of substrate roughness. Sci Rep 4:5481

A journal article with 5 or more authors

O’Connell AD, Hofheinz M, Ansmann M, et al (2010) Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator. Nature 464:697–703

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vogel W, Kalb H (2010) Large-Scale Solar Thermal Power. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Wagh MS, Draganov PV (eds) (2016) Pancreatic Masses: Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Jagnow R (2006) Edmund Husserl on the Applicability of Formal Geometry. In: Carson E, Huber R (eds) Intuition and the Axiomatic Method. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 67–85

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

Andrew E (2015) Functional 3D Brain Tissue Successfully Grown From Stem Cells. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/functional-3d-brain-tissue-successfully-grown-stem-cells/. 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 (1978) Relevance of GAO Report, “Improvements Needed in DOE’s Efforts To Develop a Financial Reporting 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

Milner M (2009) An evaluation of the influence of case method instruction on the reflective thinking of MSW students. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Poniewozik J (2016) A TV Show That’s Amazing, Not Necessarily Good. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmollinger 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Schmollinger 2002; Zelzer and Olsen 2003).

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

Two authors: (Zelzer and Olsen 2003)
Three or more authors: (O’Connell et al. 2010)

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