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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Padma TV (2005) Rivalry and red tape. Nature 436:490–491

A journal article with 2 authors

Maechler P, Wollheim CB (2001) Mitochondrial function in normal and diabetic beta-cells. Nature 414:807–812

A journal article with 3 authors

Finlay JC, Small GE, Sterner RW (2013) Human influences on nitrogen removal in lakes. Science 342:247–250

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Haering CH, Farcas A-M, Arumugam P, et al (2008) The cohesin ring concatenates sister DNA molecules. Nature 454:297–301

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gianni R (2016) Responsibility and Freedom. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mitsikostas DD, Paemeleire K (eds) (2016) Pharmacological Management of Headaches. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Landau ID, Lozano R, M’Saad M, Karimi A (2011) Recursive Plant Model Identification in Open Loop. In: Lozano R, M’Saad M, Karimi A (eds) Adaptive Control: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications. Springer, London, pp 153–191

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

Carpineti A (2017) Galaxy Collisions Might Be Shrouding Black Holes In Dust. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/galaxy-collisions-might-be-shrouding-black-holes-in-dust/. 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 (1997) School Facilities: Reported Condition and Costs to Repair Schools Funded by Bureau of Indian Affairs. 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

Gimbel SI (2010) Imaging frontal and medial temporal lobe interaction during memory retrieval and disentangling the effects of the default network. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Leland J (2017) The City Awakens. New York Times MB7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padma 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Maechler and Wollheim 2001; Padma 2005).

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

Two authors: (Maechler and Wollheim 2001)
Three or more authors: (Haering 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