How to format your references using the Plant Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization. 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

White SH (2009) Biophysical dissection of membrane proteins. Nature 459: 344–346.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rohrer F and Berresheim H (2006) Strong correlation between levels of tropospheric hydroxyl radicals and solar ultraviolet radiation. Nature 442: 184–187.

A journal article with 3 authors

McGinty RK, Henrici RC and Tan S (2014) Crystal structure of the PRC1 ubiquitylation module bound to the nucleosome. Nature 514: 591–596.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Neafsey DE et al. (2010) SNP genotyping defines complex gene-flow boundaries among African malaria vector mosquitoes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330: 514–517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson SK and Handelsman MM (2009) Ethics for Psychotherapists and Counselors. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Chen Q (2008) Secure Transaction Protocol Analysis: Models and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5111. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Backer CL (2015) Vascular Rings, Tracheoplasty, and Pulmonary Artery Sling. In: Mavroudis C and Backer CL (eds). Atlas of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. Springer: London, pp. 45–72.

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 Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization.

Blog post

A Supercomputer Just Made The World’s First AI-Created Film Trailer – Here’s How Well It Did (2017) IFLScience. See https://www.iflscience.com/technology/a-supercomputer-just-made-the-worlds-first-aicreated-film-trailer-heres-how-well-it-did/ (accessed 30 October 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 (2004) Aviation Assistance: Compensation Criteria and Payment Equity under the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act. GAO-04-725R. 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

Martin LK (2016) Norway leads the world in gender equality and work-life balance: A qualitative life course study of Norwegian women. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University.

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

New York Times (2017) A Mattress Maker Strikes a Deal With Target. 19 June.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Rohrer and Berresheim, 2006; White, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rohrer and Berresheim, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Neafsey et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization
ISSN (print)	1479-2621
ISSN (online)	1479-263X
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