How to format your references using the Planta citation style

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

Donald A (2012) Throw off the cloak of invisibility. Nature 490:447

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehme C, McCamey DR (2012) Physics. Nuclear-spin quantum memory poised to take the lead. Science 336:1239–1240

A journal article with 3 authors

Dalton CA, Langmuir CH, Gale A (2014) Geophysical and geochemical evidence for deep temperature variations beneath mid-ocean ridges. Science 344:80–83

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhao Y, Christensen SK, Fankhauser C, et al (2001) A role for flavin monooxygenase-like enzymes in auxin biosynthesis. Science 291:306–309

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mastro M (2013) Financial Derivative and Energy Market Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Meyer R, Platzer A, Wehrheim H (eds) (2015) Correct System Design: Symposium in Honor of Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Oldenburg, Germany, September 8-9, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kolodkin V, Murin A (2006) Prediction of Quantitative Assessments of Effects on Nature from Potential Accidents at Chemical Warfare Agent Facilities. In: Kolodkin VM, Ruck W (eds) Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 45–55

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 Planta.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2015) Quadruple Amputee Dog Receives Four Prosthetic Paws. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/quadruple-amputee-dog-receives-four-prosthetic-paws/. 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 (1992) NASA Procurement: Approach to Sharing Risk Under Certain Research and Development Contracts Is Starting to Change. 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

Orozco M (2015) Music preference and its effects on emotion processes and identity development in young adult females: An examination of the “emo” subculture. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Pilon M (2013) A.B.A., or Something Unlike It. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Donald 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Boehme and McCamey 2012; Donald 2012).

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

Two authors: (Boehme and McCamey 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Planta
Abbreviation	Planta
ISSN (print)	0032-0935
ISSN (online)	1432-2048
Scope	Plant Science Genetics