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

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

Adam D (2001) Plans for GM livestock fail the poor. Nature 411:403

A journal article with 2 authors

LeRoy BJ, Yankowitz M (2014) Physics. Emergent complex states in bilayer graphene. Science 345:31–32

A journal article with 3 authors

Penmatsa A, Wang KH, Gouaux E (2013) X-ray structure of dopamine transporter elucidates antidepressant mechanism. Nature 503:85–90

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Stenman JM, Rajagopal J, Carroll TJ, et al (2008) Canonical Wnt signaling regulates organ-specific assembly and differentiation of CNS vasculature. Science 322:1247–1250

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kukushkin A (2004) Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Murgante B, Gervasi O, Iglesias A, et al (eds) (2011) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011: International Conference, Santander, Spain, June 20-23, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ritter O, Spitzer K, Afanasjew M, et al (2014) Three-Dimensional Multi-Scale and Multi-Method Inversion to Determine the Electrical Conductivity Distribution of the Subsurface (Multi-EM). In: Weber M, Münch U (eds) Tomography of the Earth’s Crust: From Geophysical Sounding to Real-Time Monitoring: GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No. 21. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 83–93

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 Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) 47 Years On, Relive The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Through These Historic Photos. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/47-years-on-relive-the-apollo-11-moon-landing-through-these-historic-photos/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1976) Examination of Disbursing Officer’s Account, U.S. Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia. 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

Gambini F (2011) Leadership capacity for succession and sustainability in a family-owned private school. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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 (2002) Is Anybody Regulating Cellphone Antennas? 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 (Adam 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2001; LeRoy and Yankowitz 2014).

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

Two authors: (LeRoy and Yankowitz 2014)
Three or more authors: (Stenman et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Research
Abbreviation	J. Plant Res.
ISSN (print)	0918-9440
ISSN (online)	1618-0860
Scope	Plant Science