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

Schofield, A.J., 2007. Physics. Two for the price of one. Science 315, 945–946.

A journal article with 2 authors

Qian, H., Ricklefs, R.E., 2000. Large-scale processes and the Asian bias in species diversity of temperate plants. Nature 407, 180–182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poss, K.D., Wilson, L.G., Keating, M.T., 2002. Heart regeneration in zebrafish. Science 298, 2188–2190.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chang, Y.-C., Lu, S.-C., Chung, H.-C., Wang, S.-M., Tsai, T.-D., Guo, T.-F., 2013. High-throughput nanofabrication of infra-red and chiral metamaterials using nanospherical-lens lithography. Sci. Rep. 3, 3339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goodman, A.H., 2012. Rehabilitating and Resettling Offenders in the Community. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Yang, F., Li, J.C.M. (Eds.), 2008. Micro and Nano Mechanical Testing of Materials and Devices. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Ussery, D.W., Wassenaar, T.M., Borini, S., 2009. The Challenges of Programming: A Brief Introduction, in: Ussery, D.W., Wassenaar, T.M., Borini, S. (Eds.), Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics: Bioinformatics for Microbiologists, Computational Biology. Springer, London, pp. 69–91.

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 Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2017. Watching Nature Documentaries Makes Us Ridiculously Happy [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2007. Passenger Rail Security: Federal Strategy and Enhanced Coordination Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts (No. GAO-07-583T). 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

Pan, Y., 2010. Long-Term Effects of Higher-Quality Early Childhood Education for At-Risk Children on Their Later Development and Resilience (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2016. No 401(k)? California Will Step In for Workers. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schofield, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Qian and Ricklefs, 2000; Schofield, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Qian and Ricklefs, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al., 2013)

About the journal

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