How to format your references using the New Negatives in Plant Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Negatives in Plant 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

G. Brumfiel, Arms pact could boost US-Russian science, Nature 460 (2009) 316.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Mizuno, H. Kubo, Overview of active cesium contamination of freshwater fish in Fukushima and Eastern Japan, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1742.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.W. Palm, R.K. Rosenstein, R. Medzhitov, Allergic host defences, Nature 484 (2012) 465–472.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V.R. Iyer, C.E. Horak, C.S. Scafe, D. Botstein, M. Snyder, P.O. Brown, Genomic binding sites of the yeast cell-cycle transcription factors SBF and MBF, Nature 409 (2001) 533–538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.J. Zarowski, An Introduction to Numerical Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

J.D. Popkin, ed., The Legacies of Richard Popkin, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.U. von Weizsäcker, New Frontiers in Technology Application: Integration of Emerging and Traditional Technologies, in: E.U. von Weizsäcker (Ed.), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 53–55.

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 New Negatives in Plant Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, GM Apples That Don’t Turn Brown Approved For Growing In US, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/non-browning-gm-apples-approved-growing-us/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Pilot Cities Program: Phaseout Needed Due To Limited National Benefits, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.C. Manley Lima, Commuter Students’ Social Integration: The Relationship Between Involvement in Extracurricular Activities and Sense of Belonging, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2014.

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

[1]

B. Rothenberg, Agassi to Coach Djokovic at French Open, New York Times (2017) D4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	New Negatives in Plant Science
Abbreviation	New Negat. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)	2352-0264
Scope	Plant Science Biochemistry Molecular Biology