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

Ramaswamy S (2011) Biochemistry. One atom makes all the difference. Science 334: 914–915

A journal article with 2 authors

Bottos A, Hynes NE (2014) Cancer: Staying together on the road to metastasis. Nature 514: 309–310

A journal article with 3 authors

Kersten S, Desvergne B, Wahli W (2000) Roles of PPARs in health and disease. Nature 405: 421–424

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhou W, Chen X-J, Zhang J-B, Li X-H, Wang Y-Q, Goncharov AF (2014) Vibrational, electronic and structural properties of wurtzite GaAs nanowires under hydrostatic pressure. Sci Rep 4: 6472

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abner DJ (2010) The ETF Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lin CY-Y (2011) National Intellectual Capital: A Comparison of 40 Countries. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Altwaijry N, El Bachir Menai M (2014) A Swarm Random Walk Algorithm for Global Continuous Optimization. In J-S Pan, P Krömer, V Snášel, eds, Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, ICGEC 2013, August 25 - 27, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 33–43

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

Carpineti A (2017) Astronomers Capture The Fireworks Of Newborn Stars. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-capture-the-fireworks-of-newborn-stars/

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 (2005) Information Technology: FBI Is Building Management Capabilities Essential to Successful System Deployments, but Challenges Remain. 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

Williams A (2010) Kindergarten through third grade reading tutors in Northeast Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

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

Ewing J, Tabuchi H, Protess B (2017) Volkswagen Said to Be Near Deal With U.S. in Diesel Case. 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 (Ramaswamy, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ramaswamy, 2011; Bottos and Hynes, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bottos and Hynes, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

About the journal

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