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

Angerer P. 2004. Graduate journal: PhD limitations. Nature. 431(7012):1128.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hibbs RE, Gouaux E. 2011. Principles of activation and permeation in an anion-selective Cys-loop receptor. Nature. 474(7349):54–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Denommee KC, Bentley SJ, Droxler AW. 2014. Climatic controls on hurricane patterns: a 1200-y near-annual record from Lighthouse Reef, Belize. Sci Rep. 4:3876.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Okubo Y, Mera T, Wang L, Faustman DL. 2013. Homogeneous expansion of human T-regulatory cells via tumor necrosis factor receptor 2. Sci Rep. 3:3153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakushevich LV. 2005. Nonlinear Physics of DNA. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Banik BK, editor. 2010. Heterocyclic Scaffolds I: ß-Lactams. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zileli M. 2014. Surgery for Kyphosis. In: Schramm J, editor. Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery: Volume 41. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 71–103.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Researchers Grow A Breast In A Petri Dish. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mini-breasts-grown-petri-dishes/

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. Highway And Transit Investments: Options for Improving Information on Projects’ Benefits and Costs and Increasing Accountability for Results. 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

Wahid R. 2012. Quality of life of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: 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

Austen B. 2016. Violence and Division on Chicago’s South Side. New York Times.:SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Angerer 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Angerer 2004; Hibbs and Gouaux 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hibbs and Gouaux 2011)
Three or more authors: (Okubo et al. 2013)

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