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

Deary I. 2008. Why do intelligent people live longer? Nature. 456(7219):175–176.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hillaire-Marcel C, de Vernal A. 2008. Comment on “Mixed-layer deepening during Heinrich events: a multi-planktonic foraminiferal delta18O approach.” Science. 320(5880):1161; author reply 1161.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeong H, Chang AM, Melloch MR. 2001. The Kondo effect in an artificial quantum dot molecule. Science. 293(5538):2221–2223.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Piao S, Fang J, Ciais P, Peylin P, Huang Y, Sitch S, Wang T. 2009. The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature. 458(7241):1009–1013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guinebretière R. 2010. X-ray Diffraction by Polycrystalline Materials. London, UK: ISTE.

An edited book

Greefhorst D. 2011. Architecture Principles: The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture. Proper E, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Noor TH, Sheng QZ, Bouguettaya A. 2014. Robust and Adaptive Credibility Model. In: Sheng QZ, Bouguettaya A, editors. Trust Management in Cloud Services. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 45–57.

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. Scientists Snap Stunning Photograph Of Star Cluster. IFLScience.

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. 2000. Education for Disadvantaged Children: Research Purpose and Design Features Affect Conclusions Drawn From Key Studies. 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

Victoria FC. 2017. One on One [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

Crow K. 2001. UPPER WEST SIDE. New York Times.:145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Deary 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hillaire-Marcel and de Vernal 2008; Deary 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hillaire-Marcel and de Vernal 2008)
Three or more authors: (Piao et al. 2009)

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