How to format your references using the Plant Systematics and Evolution citation style

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

Schiermeier Q (2004) Benelux: fertile ground. Nature 428:874–875

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhao M, Running SW (2010) Drought-induced reduction in global terrestrial net primary production from 2000 through 2009. Science 329:940–943

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyagoshi T, Kageyama A, Sato T (2010) Zonal flow formation in the Earth’s core. Nature 463:793–796

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen H-T, Padilla WJ, Zide JMO, et al (2006) Active terahertz metamaterial devices. Nature 444:597–600

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Santamarina JC, Fratta D (2006) Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pokojski J, Fukuda S, Salwiński J (eds) (2010) New World Situation: New Directions in Concurrent Engineering: Proceedings of the 17th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Li M, He G (2006) Fast Mode Decision Algorithm in H.263+/H.264 Intra Transcoder. In: Zhuang Y, Yang S-Q, Rui Y, He Q (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2006: 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hangzhou, China, November 2-4, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–47

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 Systematics and Evolution.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) This Is What It Looks Like Inside A Beatboxer’s Throat. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-is-what-it-looks-like-inside-a-beatboxers-throat/. 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 (1973) United States Interests and Activities in Nepal. 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

Amos AE (2010) Perceptions of the persistent: Academic experiences of first generation community college students. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Corkery M, Walsh MW (2017) Puerto Rico Message: An Easy Bet Might Lose. 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 (Schiermeier 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2004; Zhao and Running 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zhao and Running 2010)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Systematics and Evolution
Abbreviation	Osterr. Bot. Z.
ISSN (print)	0378-2697
ISSN (online)	2199-6881
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science