How to format your references using the Plant Physiology citation style

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

Tucker BE (2013) Geophysics. Reducing earthquake risk. Science 341: 1070–1072

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee DH, Gupta JA (2010) Tunable field control over the binding energy of single dopants by a charged vacancy in GaAs. Science 330: 1807–1810

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkovich G, Fouxon A, Stepanov MG (2002) Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence. Nature 419: 151–154

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Engert F, Tao HW, Zhang LI, Poo M-M (2002) Moving visual stimuli rapidly induce direction sensitivity of developing tectal neurons. Nature 419: 470–475

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms (2011) Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dingli A (2015) The New Digital Natives: Cutting the Chord. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

DeStefano S (2009) Wildlife Corridors and Developed Landscapes. In AX Esparza, G McPherson, eds, The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation: The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe. Springer, New York, NY, pp 85–102

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.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Created A “Dirty Blizzard” That Lasted Months. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-created-dirty-blizzard-lasted-months/

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 (1985) Job Training: Effect of Under-Reported Unemployment Data on Grant Funding to Rural Areas. 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

Collinsworth BM (2014) Hospital to housing: A grant proposal for specialized discharge planning services for people who are homeless. 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

Walsh MW (2012) Consequences in a Fiscal Plan. 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 (Tucker, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Lee and Gupta, 2010; Tucker, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Gupta, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Engert et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Physiology
Abbreviation	Plant Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0032-0889
ISSN (online)	1532-2548
Scope	Plant Science Genetics Physiology