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

Ruan Y (2011) Genome-sequencing anniversary. Presenting the human genome: now in 3D! Science 331:1025–1026

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts RG, Lian OB (2015) Dating techniques: Illuminating the past. Nature 520:438–439

A journal article with 3 authors

Innes C, Anand M, Bauch CT (2013) The impact of human-environment interactions on the stability of forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems. Sci Rep 3:2689

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Resta A, Leoni T, Barth C, et al (2013) Atomic structures of silicene layers grown on Ag(111): scanning tunneling microscopy and noncontact atomic force microscopy observations. Sci Rep 3:2399

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Purkis S, Klemas V (2011) Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Wolfson N, Lerner A, Roshal L (eds) (2016) Orthopedics in Disasters: Orthopedic Injuries in Natural Disasters and Mass Casualty Events. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Caspi P, Benveniste A, Lublinerman R, Tripakis S (2009) Actors without Directors: A Kahnian View of Heterogeneous Systems. In: Majumdar R, Tabuada P (eds) Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 12th International Conference, HSCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 13-15, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 46–60

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 (2015) Why Are There Clouds? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-science-behind-how-our-atmosphere-creates-clouds/. 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 (1987) Radio Frequencies: Earlier Coordination Could Improve System Use and Save Costs. 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

Zhu M (2017) Numerical Investigation of Encapsulation Technology in Polymer Flooding Processes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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 (2010) Pension Fraud By New Jersey Cited by S.E.C. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruan 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ruan 2011; Roberts and Lian 2015).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Lian 2015)
Three or more authors: (Resta et al. 2013)

About the journal

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