How to format your references using the Plant Physiology and Biochemistry citation style

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

Smaglik, P., 2000. Varmus tells Congress to grasp thorny policy issues. Nature 404, 530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perepichka, D.F., Rosei, F., 2009. Chemistry. Extending polymer conjugation into the second dimension. Science 323, 216–217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilman, R.T., Nuismer, S.L., Jhwueng, D.-C., 2012. Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favours escape from parasites and pathogens. Nature 483, 328–330.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arias, C.F., Catalán, P., Manrubia, S., Cuesta, J.A., 2014. toyLIFE: a computational framework to study the multi-level organisation of the genotype-phenotype map. Sci. Rep. 4, 7549.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bhaduri, S., Mukesh, D., 2014. Homogeneous Catalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Giordan, G., Pace, E. (Eds.), 2014. Religious Pluralism: Framing Religious Diversity in the Contemporary World. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Pacyna, J., 2011. Environmental Emissions of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants, in: Quante, M., Ebinghaus, R., Flöser, G. (Eds.), Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future: School of Environmental Research - Organized by Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–56.

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 Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Three Of Namibia’s Most Famous Lion Family Were Poisoned – Why? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/three-of-namibias-most-famous-lion-family-were-poisoned-why/ (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, 1999. Education and Care: Early Childhood Programs and Services for Low-Income Families (No. HEHS-00-11). 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

Gaudet, C.J., 2013. A General Approach to the Direct Detection of Dark Matter (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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. ‘Stranger Things’ Will Return in 2017. 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 (Smaglik, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Perepichka and Rosei, 2009; Smaglik, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Perepichka and Rosei, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Arias et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Plant Physiol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0981-9428
Scope	Plant Science Genetics Physiology