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

Hinnebusch, A.G., 2015. Cell biology. Blocking stress response for better memory? Science 348, 967–968.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spitale, J.N., Porco, C.C., 2007. Association of the jets of Enceladus with the warmest regions on its south-polar fractures. Nature 449, 695–697.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paolo, F.S., Fricker, H.A., Padman, L., 2015. Ice sheets. Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating. Science 348, 327–331.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choe, K.-M., Werner, T., Stöven, S., Hultmark, D., Anderson, K.V., 2002. Requirement for a peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP) in Relish activation and antibacterial immune responses in Drosophila. Science 296, 359–362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gunn, A., Pitt, S.J., 2012. Parasitology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wynberg, R., Schroeder, D., Chennells, R. (Eds.), 2009. Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing: Lessons from the San-Hoodia Case. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Charron, D.M., Chen, J., Zheng, G., 2015. Theranostic Lipid Nanoparticles for Cancer Medicine, in: Mirkin, C.A., Meade, T.J., Petrosko, S.H., Stegh, A.H. (Eds.), Nanotechnology-Based Precision Tools for the Detection and Treatment of Cancer, Cancer Treatment and Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 103–127.

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

Hamilton, K., 2015. Fisherman Fends Off Shark With Kayak Paddle [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fisherman-fends-shark-kayak-paddle/ (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, 1998. Intercity Passenger Rail: Outlook for Improving Amtrak’s Financial Health (No. T-RCED-98-134). 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

Allen, S.D., 2014. Putting out fires: How communication professionals understand and practice conflict resolution (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Miller, J., 2016. The Modern’s Progress. New York Times BR15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hinnebusch, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hinnebusch, 2015; Spitale and Porco, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Spitale and Porco, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Choe et al., 2002)

About the journal

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