How to format your references using the Plant Cell Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Cell Reports. 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

Stone AJ (2007) Chemistry. Water from first principles. Science 315:1228–1229

A journal article with 2 authors

Marchiori D, Warglien M (2008) Predicting human interactive learning by regret-driven neural networks. Science 319:1111–1113

A journal article with 3 authors

Swan A, Cockerill M, Sipp D (2013) Advocacy: How to hasten open access. Nature 495:442–443

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bettegowda C, Agrawal N, Jiao Y, et al (2011) Mutations in CIC and FUBP1 contribute to human oligodendroglioma. Science 333:1453–1455

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boussabaine A (2013) Risk Pricing Strategies for Public-Private Partnerships Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

O’Connor RV, Rout T, McCaffery F, Dorling A (eds) (2011) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 11th International Conference, SPICE 2011, Dublin, Ireland, May 30 – June 1, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Revaud J, Lavoue G, Ariki Y, Baskurt A (2011) Task-Specific Salience for Object Recognition. In: Kwaśnicka H, Jain LC (eds) Innovations in Intelligent Image Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–85

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 Plant Cell Reports.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) First Edition Of Newton’s Principia Mathematica Becomes World’s Most Expensive Science Book. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/first-edition-of-newton-s-principia-mathematica-becomes-world-s-most-expensive-science-book/. 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 (1994) Early Childhood Programs: Many Poor Children and Strained Resources Challenge Head Start. 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

Bergh PA (2009) Reconfiguring academic priorities: Through the eyes of Michigan community college Chief Academic Officers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Cowley S, Corkery M (2017) After Scandal, Wells Fargo’s Board Faces a Contentious Re-election Vote. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stone 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Stone 2007; Marchiori and Warglien 2008).

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

Two authors: (Marchiori and Warglien 2008)
Three or more authors: (Bettegowda et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Cell Reports
Abbreviation	Plant Cell Rep.
ISSN (print)	0721-7714
ISSN (online)	1432-203X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science General Medicine