How to format your references using the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (JPNSS). 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

Ford, A. T. (2015): The mechanistic pathways of trophic interactions in human-occupied landscapes. Science 350, 1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Catania, K. C., Remple, F. E. (2005): Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit. Nature 433, 519–522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C. W., Ciston, J., Kanan, M. W. (2014): Electroreduction of carbon monoxide to liquid fuel on oxide-derived nanocrystalline copper. Nature 508, 504–507.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Torres-Padilla, M.-E., Parfitt, D.-E., Kouzarides, T., Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2007): Histone arginine methylation regulates pluripotency in the early mouse embryo. Nature 445, 214–218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coutts, J. (2013): Loft Conversions. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

Pasetta, V. (2005): Modeling Foundations of Economic Property Rights Theory: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Agreements. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Rhodes, R. (2005): Justice in Allocations for Terrorism, Biological Warfare, and Public Health, in: Boylan, M. (ed.): Public Health Policy and Ethics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 73–90.

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 Nutrition and Soil Science.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017): Elon Musk’s SpaceX Held A Hyperloop “Pod Race” Competition [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musks-spacex-held-a-hyperloop-pod-race-compeition/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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 (1990): Drug Education: School-Based Programs Seen as Useful but Impact Unknown ( No. HRD-91-27). 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

Wuebbels, P. J. (2014): Effectiveness of Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum on Middle School Reading Comprehension and Preparation for Common Core State Standards. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Wagner, J. (2017): Rendon, Perhaps the Best Player on the Nationals, Hides in Plain Sight. New York Times SP3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
Abbreviation	J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci.
ISSN (print)	1436-8730
ISSN (online)	1522-2624
Scope	Soil Science Plant Science