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

Lawler A (2000) ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: Harbinger of a Litigious Future? Science 290:1076

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoeller D, Dikic I (2009) Targeting the ubiquitin system in cancer therapy. Nature 458:438–444

A journal article with 3 authors

Maskus KE, Mobarak AM, Stuen ET (2013) Economics. Doctoral students and U.S. immigration policy. Science 342:562–563

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bailey JV, Joye SB, Kalanetra KM, et al (2007) Evidence of giant sulphur bacteria in Neoproterozoic phosphorites. Nature 445:198–201

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke RM, Nieboer D, Misiewicz J (2014) Fat-Tailed Distributions: Volume 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yin Z, Pan L, Fang X (eds) (2013) Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA), 2013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Peardon M (2005) Monte Carlo Simulations of Lattice QCD. In: Bori~i A, Frommer A, Joó B, et al. (eds) QCD and Numerical Analysis III: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Numerical Analysis and Lattice QCD, Edinburgh June-July 2003. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–54

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

Luntz S (2016) Bacteria Beat Plants To Quantum Capturing Of Light. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/bacteria-beat-plants-to-quantum-capturing-of-light/. 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 (1987) Guaranteed Student Loans: Legislative and Regulatory Changes Needed To Reduce Default Costs. 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

Moshfegh N (2014) The multidimensional wellbeing assessment: Preliminary validation in an Iranian sample. 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

Koblin J (2016) ‘Westworld’ Creators Speak of Seasons, Spoilers and Patience. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler 2000; Hoeller and Dikic 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hoeller and Dikic 2009)
Three or more authors: (Bailey et al. 2007)

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