How to format your references using the Journal of Vegetation Science citation style

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

Gruner, S.M. (2002) Membrane fusion. Caught in the act. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5588), 1817–1818.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cafaro, J., & Rieke, F. (2010) Noise correlations improve response fidelity and stimulus encoding. Nature, 468(7326), 964–967.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bréon, F.-M., Tanré, D., & Generoso, S. (2002) Aerosol effect on cloud droplet size monitored from satellite. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5556), 834–838.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Troshin, P.A., Avent, A.G., Darwish, A.D., Martsinovich, N., Abdul-Sada, A.K., Street, J.M., & Taylor, R. (2005) Isolation of two seven-membered ring C58 fullerene derivatives: C58F17CF3 and C58F18. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5732), 278–281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brendel, R. (2005) Thin-Film Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Truong, T. (2016) Effect of Milk Fat Globule Size on the Physical Functionality of Dairy Products (M. Palmer, N. Bansal, & B. Bhandari, Eds.). Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Schulz, F.R. (2016) Word of Mouth Impulses Boost Wines of Germany: A Case Study. In: Szolnoki, G., Thach, L., & Kolb, D. (Eds.), Successful Social Media and Ecommerce Strategies in the Wine Industry, Institut für Management und Tourismus (IMT). Palgrave Macmillan US: New York, NY, pp. 55–73.

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 Vegetation Science.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016) How A Little Mathematics Can Help Create Some Beautiful Music. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-a-little-mathematics-can-help-create-some-beautiful-music/ [Accessed 30 October 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. (1991) Supercomputing in Industry. 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

Voss, J. (2013) Supported housing program for severely mentally ill homeless individuals: A grant proposal.

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

Hodgman, J. (2016) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman New York Times MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gruner, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gruner, 2002; Cafaro & Rieke, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cafaro & Rieke, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Troshin et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Vegetation Science
Abbreviation	J. Veg. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1100-9233
ISSN (online)	1654-1103
Scope	Plant Science Ecology