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

Garwood, R., 2014. Uprooting researchers can drive them out of science. Nature 510, 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stone, R., Jasny, B., 2013. Communication in science pressures and predators. Scientific discourse: buckling at the seams. Introduction. Science 342, 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao, Y., Jiang, J., Huang, H., 2014. Chemical dechlorination of hexachlorobenzene with polyethylene glycol and hydroxide: dominant effect of temperature and ionic potential. Sci. Rep. 4, 6305.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kühner, D., Stahl, M., Demircioglu, D.D., Bertsche, U., 2014. From cells to muropeptide structures in 24 h: peptidoglycan mapping by UPLC-MS. Sci. Rep. 4, 7494.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strohfeldt, K.A., 2015. Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Marcus, A. (Ed.), 2016. Design, User Experience, and Usability: Novel User Experiences: 5th International Conference, DUXU 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17–22, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Haag, R., 2014. Quantum Events and Irreversibility, in: Albeverio, S., Blanchard, P. (Eds.), Direction of Time. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 31–34.

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

Davis, J., 2016. Leopards Have Lost 75 Percent Of Their Historic Range In The Last 250 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/leopards-have-lost-75-percent-their-historic-range/ (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, 1984. [Questions Concerning the Implementation of the Student Loan Consolidation and Technical Amendments Act of 1983] (No. B-214351). 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

Daly, K.M., 2008. Cinema 3.0: How digital and computer technologies are changing cinema (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Whiteside, K., 2016. After a Flat Tire, Finding Kindness, if Not a Spare. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garwood, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Garwood, 2014; Stone and Jasny, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stone and Jasny, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kühner et al., 2014)

About the journal

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