How to format your references using the Plant Gene citation style

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

Chesebro, B., 2004. Biomedicine. A fresh look at BSE. Science 305, 1918–1921.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grodzinsky, Y., Nelken, I., 2014. Neuroscience. The neural code that makes us human. Science 343, 978–979.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamashiro, H., Isomura, N., Sakai, K., 2014. Bloom of the cyanobacterium Moorea bouillonii on the gorgonian coral Annella reticulata in Japan. Sci. Rep. 4, 6032.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Terry, I., Walter, G.H., Moore, C., Roemer, R., Hull, C., 2007. Odor-mediated push-pull pollination in cycads. Science 318, 70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubil, R., 2011. Financial Engineering and Arbitrage in the Financial Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Vega, W.A., Markides, K.S., Angel, J.L., Torres-Gil, F.M. (Eds.), 2015. Challenges of Latino Aging in the Americas. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Haveman, M., Vochteloo, J., 2016. Huawei: A Case Study on a Telecom Giant on the Rise, in: Segers, R.T. (Ed.), Multinational Management: A Casebook on Asia’s Global Market Leaders. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–94.

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 Gene.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Bone Tissue Regrown Using Proteins from Stem Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2016. Air Traffic Control: Experts’ and Stakeholders’ Views on Key Issues to Consider in a Potential Restructuring [Reissued on December 9, 2016] (No. GAO-17-131). 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

McClenahan, A., 2017. The Impact of Media Promulgated Fear on the Psyche: Love Will Prevail (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Hodara, S., 2017. Suburban Touches With a Bustling Downtown. New York Times RE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chesebro, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Chesebro, 2004; Grodzinsky and Nelken, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Grodzinsky and Nelken, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Terry et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Gene
Abbreviation	Plant Gene
ISSN (print)	2352-4073
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