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 (JVS). 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

Krauss, T.F. (2005) Physics. Control at the quantum level. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5725), 1122–1123.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conard, N.J., & Bolus, M. (2015) Anthropology. Chronicling modern human’s arrival in Europe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6236), 754–756.

A journal article with 3 authors

Magavi, S.S., Leavitt, B.R., & Macklis, J.D. (2000) Induction of neurogenesis in the neocortex of adult mice. Nature, 405(6789), 951–955.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, J.E., Fusco, M.L., Hessell, A.J., Oswald, W.B., Burton, D.R., & Saphire, E.O. (2008) Structure of the Ebola virus glycoprotein bound to an antibody from a human survivor. Nature, 454(7201), 177–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qu, D. (2016) Manufacturing and Managing Customer-Driven Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Petsche, H.-J., Keßler, G., Kannenberg, L., & Liskowacka, J. (Eds.). (2009) Hermann Graßmann Roots and Traces: Autographs and Unknown Documents. Birkhäuser: Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Anellis, I.H. (2015) Peirce’s Role in the History of Logic: Lingua Universalis and Calculus Ratiocinator. In: Koslow, A. & Buchsbaum, A. (Eds.), The Road to Universal Logic: Festschrift for the 50th Birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau Volume II, Studies in Universal Logic. Springer International Publishing: Cham, pp. 135–169.

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, E. (2015) Mind-Reading Computer Writes Words with Brain Waves. [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. (2002) Highway Projects: Extent of Projects with Unobligated Balances of Greater Than 85 Percent as of August 16, 2002. 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

Thornsberry, J.L. (2010) Freshman transition and its effectiveness on student success as measured by improved attendance, improved grades, decreased discipline referrals, and decreased dropout rate.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2006) Attackers Pillage Moscow Art Gallery and Beat Activist Owner New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krauss, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Krauss, 2005; Conard & Bolus, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Conard & Bolus, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2008)

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