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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Plant Interactions. 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

Korner C. 2003. Atmospheric science. Slow in, rapid out--carbon flux studies and Kyoto targets. Science. 300(5623):1242–1243.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richards TA, Gomes SL. 2015. Protistology: How to build a microbial eye. Nature. 523(7559):166–167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Campbell CT, Parker SC, Starr DE. 2002. The effect of size-dependent nanoparticle energetics on catalyst sintering. Science. 298(5594):811–814.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Fernández ÁF, Sebti S, Wei Y, Zou Z, Shi M, McMillan KL, He C, Ting T, Liu Y, Chiang W-C, et al. 2018. Disruption of the beclin 1-BCL2 autophagy regulatory complex promotes longevity in mice. Nature. 558(7708):136–140.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mead JM, Gruneberg S. 2013. Programme Procurement in Construction. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Kamusella T, Nomachi M, Gibson C, editors. 2016. The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Nicolau M, Costelloe D. 2014. Size Does Not Matter: Evolving Parameters for a Cayley Graph Visualiser Using 64 Bits. In: Romero J, McDermott J, Correia J, editors. Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design: Third European Conference, EvoMUSART 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 38–49.

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 Interactions.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2015. Should A Self-Driving Car Kill Its Passengers In A “Greater Good” Scenario? IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/should-self-driving-car-be-programmed-kill-its-passengers-greater-good-scenario/

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. Commercial Aviation: Costs and Major Factors Influencing Infrastructure Changes at U.S. Airports to Accomodate the New A380 Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Osterhout HL. 2010. No More “Mad Money”: Salvaging the Commander’s Emergency Response Program [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Walsh MW. 2015. Puerto Rico Officials to Testify on Debt Crisis Before Senate Panel. New York Times.:B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Korner 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Korner 2003; Richards and Gomes 2015).

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

Two authors: (Richards and Gomes 2015)
Three or more authors: (Fernández et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Interactions
Abbreviation	J. Plant Interact.
ISSN (print)	1742-9145
ISSN (online)	1742-9153
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science