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

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

Keenan, T.F., 2015. Phenology: Spring greening in a warming world. Nature 526, 48–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Safinya, C.R., Li, Y., 2010. Materials science. Bundling with x-rays. Science 327, 529–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jonsson, G.E., Miljkovic, V., Dmitriev, A., 2014. Nanoplasmon-enabled macroscopic thermal management. Sci. Rep. 4, 5111.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yagita, K., Tamanini, F., van Der Horst, G.T., Okamura, H., 2001. Molecular mechanisms of the biological clock in cultured fibroblasts. Science 292, 278–281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boddy, R., Smith, G., 2010. Effective Experimentation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Xu, Z., 2009. Surface Engineering of Polymer Membranes, Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, Q., Liu, W., Long, Y., Sun, C., Jiang, G., 2015. Toxicological Effects and Mechanisms of Silver Nanoparticles, in: Liu, J., Jiang, G. (Eds.), Silver Nanoparticles in the Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 109–138.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Transiting Exoplanet With Longest Year Discovered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/transiting-exoplanet-longest-year-discovered/ (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, 1994. National Highway System: Refinements Would Strengthen the System (No. T-RCED-94-136). 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

Layne, L.L., 2008. Military leadership: Encouraging enlisted personnel to participate in continuing education (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2005. Death Penalty Case Gives A Clue to Alito’s Methods. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keenan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Keenan, 2015; Safinya and Li, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Safinya and Li, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yagita et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Physiology
Abbreviation	J. Plant Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0176-1617
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Physiology