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

Weissman, J., 2009. Journal club. A biochemist looks at how DNA sequencing can reveal more than just sequences. Nature 461, 1177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kondo, T., Hayashi, S., 2013. Mitotic cell rounding accelerates epithelial invagination. Nature 494, 125–129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Srinivasan, V., Pierik, A.J., Lill, R., 2014. Crystal structures of nucleotide-free and glutathione-bound mitochondrial ABC transporter Atm1. Science 343, 1137–1140.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, M., Katz, H.E., Erben, C., Gill, D.M., Gopalan, P., Heber, J.D., McGee, D.J., 2002. Broadband modulation of light by using an electro-optic polymer. Science 298, 1401–1403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee, J.C., McCormick, N.J., 2011. Risk and Safety Analysis of Nuclear Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Töpler, J., Lehmann, J. (Eds.), 2016. Hydrogen and Fuel Cell: Technologies and Market Perspectives, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Jobst, A.A., 2016. A Primer on Structured Finance, in: Satchell, S. (Ed.), Derivatives and Hedge Funds. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 72–90.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Top 10 Space Science Stories From 2014 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/top-10-space-science-stories-2014/ (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. Information Technology: VA and DOD Are Making Progress in Sharing Medical Information, but Remain Far from Having Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records (No. GAO-07-1108T). 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

Selph, C.S., 2015. Origins of Music Programs in Liberal Arts Institutions: The Story of Three Florida Catholic Universities (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Crow, K., 2002. I Say Yip-Yip, You Say Ruff-Ruff: Small Dogs Lobby for Own Dog Run. New York Times 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weissman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kondo and Hayashi, 2013; Weissman, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kondo and Hayashi, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2002)

About the journal

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

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