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

Hamilton, C. (2013): No, we should not just “at least do the research.” Nature 496, 139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ghazanfar, A. A., Logothetis, N. K. (2003): Neuroperception: facial expressions linked to monkey calls. Nature 423, 937–938.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ibarra, R. U., Edwards, J. S., Palsson, B. O. (2002): Escherichia coli K-12 undergoes adaptive evolution to achieve in silico predicted optimal growth. Nature 420, 186–189.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhu, Z., Zheng, T., Homer, R. J., Kim, Y.-K., Chen, N. Y., Cohn, L., Hamid, Q., Elias, J. A. (2004): Acidic mammalian chitinase in asthmatic Th2 inflammation and IL-13 pathway activation. Science 304, 1678–1682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, F., Klette, R., Scheibe, K. (2008): Panoramic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Strauss, H. W., Mariani, G., Volterrani, D., Larson, S. M. (Eds.) (2013): Nuclear Oncology: Pathophysiology and Clinical Applications. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, L., Ye, Y., Zhang, J. (2007): A Note on Equilibrium Pricing as Convex Optimization, in: Deng, X., Graham, F. C. (eds.): Internet and Network Economics: Third International Workshop, WINE 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 7–16.

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

Davis, J. (2016): From Dashing Lizards To Splashing Hippos: London Zoo’s Animal Photography Awards 2016 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/from-dashing-lizards-to-splashing-hippos-london-zoos-animal-photography-awards-2016/ (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 (1989): Automated Systems: Treasury’s Efforts to Improve Its Payroll and Personnel Systems ( No. IMTEC-90-4). 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

Israel, J. M. (2013): Student Extracurricular Participation, Student Achievement, and School Perception: an Elementary School Perspective. 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

Gordon, M. R. (2017): On the Mosul Front, a Block-by-Block Fight Against ISIS and Time. New York Times A10.

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