How to format your references using the New Phytologist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Phytologist. 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

Carrell RW. 2004. Biomedicine. Prion dormancy and disease. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306: 1692–1693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schoenemann B, Clarkson ENK. 2013. Discovery of some 400 million year-old sensory structures in the compound eyes of trilobites. Scientific reports 3: 1429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bennett VC, Brandon AD, Nutman AP. 2007. Coupled 142Nd-143Nd isotopic evidence for Hadean mantle dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 1907–1910.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu X, Clark JM, Forster CA, Norell MA, Erickson GM, Eberth DA, Jia C, Zhao Q. 2006. A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. Nature 439: 715–718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens JA. 2016. Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fabbri M (Ed.). 2014. Non-coding RNAs and Cancer. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Christen M, Ott T. 2013. Quantified Coherence of Moral Beliefs as Predictive Factor for Moral Agency. In: Musschenga B, van Harskamp A, eds. Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. What Makes Us Moral? On the capacities and conditions for being moral. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 73–96.

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 Phytologist.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. Schrödinger’s Cat Experiment Lets Scientists Watch Molecules In Two States At Once. IFLScience.

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. 2004. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Major Management Issues Facing DOD’s Development and Fielding Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krug KA. 2009. Critical literacy in the face of a mandated curriculum: Can children read beyond the text?

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

Vecsey G. 2010. Petke Departs, Certain He Gave All That He Could. New York Times: SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carrell, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Carrell, 2004; Schoenemann & Clarkson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Schoenemann & Clarkson, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Phytologist
Abbreviation	New Phytol.
ISSN (print)	0028-646X
ISSN (online)	1469-8137
Scope	Plant Science Physiology