How to format your references using the Plant Molecular Biology Reporter citation style

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

Kotliar G (2003) Physics. Driving the electron over the edge. Science 302:67–69

A journal article with 2 authors

Mulch A, Chamberlain CP (2006) Earth science: the rise and growth of Tibet. Nature 439:670–671

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilman RT, Nuismer SL, Jhwueng D-C (2012) Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favours escape from parasites and pathogens. Nature 483:328–330

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Winter SE, Thiennimitr P, Winter MG, et al (2010) Gut inflammation provides a respiratory electron acceptor for Salmonella. Nature 467:426–429

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Biegelman MT, Biegelman DR (2010) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Guidebook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Apikyan S, Diamond D (eds) (2006) Countering Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Dilettoso E, Rizzo SA, Salerno N (2008) SALHE-EA: A New Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimization of Electromagnetic Devices. In: Wiak S, Krawczyk A, Dolezel I (eds) Intelligent Computer Techniques in Applied Electromagnetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–45

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 Molecular Biology Reporter.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) Cassini Sends Back Stunning New Image Of Pandora And Mimas Orbiting Saturn. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/newly-released-image-pandora-and-mimas-orbiting-saturn/. 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 (1998) Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: School Districts’ Response to Regulatory Deadline. 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

Gade S (2017) Design and Implementation of Hybrid Hyperchaotic Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly C (2008) New Design and Décor In Greenburgh Stacks. New York Times WE6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kotliar 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kotliar 2003; Mulch and Chamberlain 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mulch and Chamberlain 2006)
Three or more authors: (Winter et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Molecular Biology Reporter
Abbreviation	Plant Mol. Biol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	0735-9640
ISSN (online)	1572-9818
Scope	Plant Science Molecular Biology