How to format your references using the Plant Growth Regulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Growth Regulation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bowerman B (2005) Cell biology. Oxidative stress and cancer: a beta-catenin convergence. Science 308:1119–1120

A journal article with 2 authors

Sagarin R, Micheli F (2001) Climate change in nontraditional data sets. Science 294:811

A journal article with 3 authors

De Pontieu B, Title A, Carlsson M (2014) Eyeing the Sun. Probing the solar interface region. Introduction. Science 346:315

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhu J, Özdemir SK, Yilmaz H, et al (2014) Interfacing whispering-gallery microresonators and free space light with cavity enhanced Rayleigh scattering. Sci Rep 4:6396

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hamdan M, Righetti PG (2005) Proteomics Today. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Maheshwari DK (ed) (2011) Plant Growth and Health Promoting Bacteria. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Behr MA (2013) Evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In: Divangahi M (ed) The New Paradigm of Immunity to Tuberculosis. Springer, New York, NY, pp 81–91

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 Growth Regulation.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Gene That Makes People Behave Like Idiots When Drunk Could Also Protect Against Diabetes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-makes-people-behave-like-idiots-drunk-protect-against-diabetes/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1983) Bonneville’s ADP Resource Management Controls Show Improvement, but More Needs To Be Done. 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

Gifford SC (2013) (Re)making men, representing the Caribbean nation: Authorial individuation in works by Fred D’aguiar, Robert Antoni, and Marlon James. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

McGOVERN G (2012) George McGovern on Op-Ed. New York Times 0

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowerman 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Sagarin and Micheli 2001; Bowerman 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sagarin and Micheli 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Growth Regulation
Abbreviation	Plant Growth Regul.
ISSN (print)	0167-6903
ISSN (online)	1573-5087
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Physiology