How to format your references using the Plant Diversity citation style

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

Ball, P., 2015. Carl Djerassi (1923-2015). Nature 519, 34.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morata, G., Struhl, G., 2014. Developmental biology: Tethered wings. Nature 505, 162–163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Davison, P.A., Hunter, C.N., Horton, P., 2002. Overexpression of beta-carotene hydroxylase enhances stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Nature 418, 203–206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, D., Carpena-Núñez, J., Fonseca, L.F., Biaggi-Labiosa, A., Hunter, G.W., 2014. Shape-controlled synthesis of palladium and copper superlattice nanowires for high-stability hydrogen sensors. Sci. Rep. 4, 3773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bajorski, P., 2011. Statistics for Imaging, Optics, and Photonics: Bajorski/Statistics for Imaging, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mazure, A., 2012. Matter, Dark Matter, and Anti-Matter: In Search of the Hidden Universe, Springer Praxis Books. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Gerrath, J., Posluszny, U., Melville, L., 2015. Identification of Vitaceae in North America, in: Posluszny, U., Melville, L. (Eds.), Taming the Wild Grape: Botany and Horticulture in the Vitaceae. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–101.

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 Diversity.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. There Probably Won’t Be A “Mini Ice Age” In 15 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mini-ice-age-not-reason-ignore-global-warming/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1990. Circumstances Surrounding the ASPJ Limited Production Decision (No. T-NSIAD-90-40). 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

Ryan, H.L., 2009. Normalizing happiness: The rhetoric of depression in Direct -to -Consumer advertising (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Ember, S., Harris, G., 2017. Wall St. Journal Reviews Articles by Fired Reporter. New York Times B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ball, 2015; Morata and Struhl, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Morata and Struhl, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Diversity
Abbreviation	Plant Divers.
ISSN (print)	2468-2659
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