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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Harte B (2011) Geochemistry. Diamond window into the lower mantle. Science 334:51–52

A journal article with 2 authors

Reichmanis E, Nalamasu O (2002) Applied physics. Testing the limits for resists. Science 297:349–350

A journal article with 3 authors

Burns PC, Ewing RC, Navrotsky A (2012) Nuclear fuel in a reactor accident. Science 335:1184–1188

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sharma KK, Shrivastava B, Sastry VRB, et al (2013) Middle-redox potential laccase from Ganoderma sp.: its application in improvement of feed for monogastric animals. Sci Rep 3:1299

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schoukens J, Pintelon R, Rolain Y (2012) Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hartimo M (ed) (2010) Phenomenology and Mathematics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Müller SA, Tarantino I, Martin DJ, Schmied BM (2012) Pancreatic Surgery: Beyond the Traditional Limits. In: Otto F, Lutz MP (eds) Early Gastrointestinal Cancers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–64

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 (2014) Hardest Synthetic Diamond Yet Created. In: IFLScience. 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 (1982) Methodology Transfer Paper 3. 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

Miller NY (2017) Nutrition education series for female club soccer players 14 to 18 years of age. 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harte 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Reichmanis and Nalamasu 2002; Harte 2011).

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

Two authors: (Reichmanis and Nalamasu 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sharma et al. 2013)

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