How to format your references using the Physiologia Plantarum citation style

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

Ebert D (2011) Genomics. A genome for the environment. Science 331: 539–540

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu C-C, Chen C-C (2014) The symmetry detection mechanisms are color selective. Sci Rep 4: 3893

A journal article with 3 authors

Bakshy E, Messing S, Adamic LA (2015) Political science. Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science 348: 1130–1132

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maldonado RA, Irvine DJ, Schreiber R, Glimcher LH (2004) A role for the immunological synapse in lineage commitment of CD4 lymphocytes. Nature 431: 527–532

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spotte S (2016) Tarpons. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mita M, Mita A, Rowinsky EK (eds) (2016) mTOR Inhibition for Cancer Therapy: Past, Present and Future, 1st ed. 2016 Ed. Springer, Paris

A chapter in an edited book

Langrial S, Oinas-Kukkonen H, Wang S (2012) Design of a Web-Based Information System for Sleep Deprivation – A Trial Study. In: Eriksson-Backa K, Luoma A, Krook E (eds) Exploring the Abyss of Inequalities: 4th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2012, Turku, Finland, August 22-24, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–51

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 Physiologia Plantarum.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Ozone Depletion Could Have Been Much Worse. Available At https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ozone-depletion-could-have-been-much-worse/ (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 (1996) State Infrastructure Banks: A Mechanism to Expand Federal Transportation Financing

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bowles A (2012) The development of a standard of care for competency to stand trial evaluations. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

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

Koblin J, Grynbaum MM (2016) Fox News, in Naming Leaders, Sends Signal: ‘Stay the Course’. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ebert 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ebert 2011; Wu and Chen 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wu and Chen 2014)
Three or more authors: (Maldonado et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Physiologia Plantarum
ISSN (print)	0031-9317
ISSN (online)	1399-3054
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