How to format your references using the Plant Reproduction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Reproduction. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Simmons JG (2010) Timeline: Lindau and the zeitgeist. Nature 467:S14-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemmer P, Wrachtrup J (2009) Physics. Where is my quantum computer? Science 324:473–474

A journal article with 3 authors

Savaldi-Goldstein S, Peto C, Chory J (2007) The epidermis both drives and restricts plant shoot growth. Nature 446:199–202

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li YB, Wan X, Cai BG, et al (2014) Frequency-controls of electromagnetic multi-beam scanning by metasurfaces. Sci Rep 4:6921

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nguyen TH (2016) Leaders and Innovators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gutin G, Szeider S (eds) (2013) Parameterized and Exact Computation: 8th International Symposium, IPEC 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 4-6, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bagni D, Cappella M, Pazienza MT, Stellato A (2009) CONGAS: A COllaborative Ontology Development Framework Based on Named GrAphS. In: Serra R, Cucchiara R (eds) AI*IA 2009: Emergent Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence: XIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Reggio Emilia, Italy, December 9-12, 2009 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 42–51

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 Reproduction.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Kennewick Man Will Be Reburied, But Quandaries Around Human Remains Won’t. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2016) DOD Major Automated Information Systems: Improvements Can Be Made in Reporting Critical Changes and Clarifying Leadership Responsibility. 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

Arnold JK (2015) An Ecological Model for Health Policy Review: The Integration of New Institutional and Public Choice Theory for Public Policy Assessment. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Angelos J (2017) The French Defection. New York Times MM44

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simmons 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hemmer and Wrachtrup 2009; Simmons 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hemmer and Wrachtrup 2009)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Reproduction
Abbreviation	Plant Reprod.
ISSN (print)	2194-7953
ISSN (online)	2194-7961
Scope	Plant Science Cell Biology