How to format your references using the Photosynthesis Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Photosynthesis 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 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

Brown TA (2010) Human evolution: Stranger from Siberia. Nature

A journal article with 2 authors

Pastinen T, Hudson TJ (2004) Cis-acting regulatory variation in the human genome. Science 306:647–650

A journal article with 3 authors

Rabinovich M, Huerta R, Laurent G (2008) Neuroscience. Transient dynamics for neural processing. Science 321:48–50

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kapranov P, Cawley SE, Drenkow J, et al (2002) Large-scale transcriptional activity in chromosomes 21 and 22. Science 296:916–919

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackenzie AFD (2013) Places of Possibility. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Peters JF, Skowron A, Rybiński H (eds) (2008) Transactions on Rough Sets IX. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Nikolova M (2015) Energy Minimization Methods. In: Scherzer O (ed) Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging. Springer, New York, NY, pp 157–204

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 Photosynthesis Research.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This Super-Realistic 3D Printed Body Is Helping Train Surgeons. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-super-realistic-3d-printed-body-is-helping-train-surgeons/. 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 (2011) Traffic and Vehicle Safety: Reauthorization Offers Opportunities to Extend Recent Progress. 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

Chamoun TJ (2014) A paleopathological survey of ancient Peruvian crania housed at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: A special emphasis on scurvy. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University

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

Shpigel B (2016) Helping Hands for Damaged Limbs. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Pastinen and Hudson 2004; Brown 2010).

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

Two authors: (Pastinen and Hudson 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kapranov et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Photosynthesis Research
Abbreviation	Photosynth. Res.
ISSN (print)	0166-8595
ISSN (online)	1573-5079
Scope	Plant Science Biochemistry Cell Biology General Medicine

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