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

Ohlemüller R (2011) Climate. Running out of climate space. Science 334:613–614

A journal article with 2 authors

Elowitz M, Lim WA (2010) Build life to understand it. Nature 468:889–890

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt D, Jiang Q-X, MacKinnon R (2006) Phospholipids and the origin of cationic gating charges in voltage sensors. Nature 444:775–779

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huang JY, Chen S, Wang ZQ, et al (2006) Superplastic carbon nanotubes. Nature 439:281

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murthy DNP, Kurvinen M, Töyrylä I (2016) Warranty Fraud Management: Reducing Fraud and Other Excess Costs in Warranty and Service Operations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kumar H (2016) Rapid Game Development Using Cocos2d-JS: An end-to-end guide to 2D game development using JavaScript. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Bell K (2013) Post-conventional Approaches to Gender, Climate Change and Social Justice. In: Alston M, Whittenbury K (eds) Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 53–61

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 D (2016) Extinction Alert: Saving The World From A Deadly Asteroid Impact. 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 (1995) Technology: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century. 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

Le D (2015) L.A. Children’s Music Therapy Center, LLC. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2017) Ties to Miami and to Cuba Run Deep in Marlins Bidder. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ohlemüller 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Elowitz and Lim 2010; Ohlemüller 2011).

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

Two authors: (Elowitz and Lim 2010)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2006)

About the journal

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