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

Macilwain, C., 2010. Scientists vs engineers: this time it’s financial. Nature 467, 885.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomasello, M., Call, J., 2011. Methodological challenges in the study of primate cognition. Science 334, 1227–1228.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wong, K.M., Suchard, M.A., Huelsenbeck, J.P., 2008. Alignment uncertainty and genomic analysis. Science 319, 473–476.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Luo, D.-B., Duan, Y.-X., He, Y., Gao, B., 2014. A novel DC microplasma sensor constructed in a cavity PDMS chamber with needle electrodes for fast detection of methanol-containing spirit. Sci. Rep. 4, 7451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tattar, P.N., Ramaiah, S., Manjunath, B.G., 2016. A Course in Statistics With R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Heams, T., Huneman, P., Lecointre, G., Silberstein, M. (Eds.), 2015. Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Pach, J., Radoičić, R., Tóth, G., 2012. Tangled Thrackles, in: Márquez, A., Ramos, P., Urrutia, J. (Eds.), Computational Geometry: XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, EGC 2011, Dedicated to Ferran Hurtado on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 27-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–53.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Why Do Female Butterflies Outfly Males? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-butterflies-queens-outfly-kings/ (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, 1987. Inspectors General: Compliance With Professional Standards by the Transportation Inspector General (No. AFMD-87-28). 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

Shrank, S.M., 2017. ShareOne: An iOS resource application for caseworkers: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Corkery, M., 2017. Investors Lose Patience As Retail Fails to Rally. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2010; Tomasello and Call, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Tomasello and Call, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Luo 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