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

Guenin LM (2001) Essays on science and society. Morals and primordials. Science 292:1659–1660

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiang C, Srinivasan SG (2013) Unexpected strain-stiffening in crystalline solids. Nature 496:339–342

A journal article with 3 authors

Schummers J, Yu H, Sur M (2008) Tuned responses of astrocytes and their influence on hemodynamic signals in the visual cortex. Science 320:1638–1643

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xiao R, Miljkovic N, Enright R, Wang EN (2013) Immersion condensation on oil-infused heterogeneous surfaces for enhanced heat transfer. Sci Rep 3:1988

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harrison A (2016) The Life of D. H. Lawrence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Culp P (2015) Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC

A chapter in an edited book

Kühn T, Paraoanu GS (2010) Electronic and Thermal Sequential Transport in Metallic and Superconducting Two-Junction Arrays. In: Bârsan V, Aldea A (eds) Trends in Nanophysics: Theory, Experiment and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 99–131

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

Andrew E (2015) Watch The Annual Beluga Whale Migration LIVE. 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 (2005) Highlights of an Expert Panel: The Benefits and Costs of Highway and Transit Investments. 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

Haghighat R (2015) An optimization model to allocate budget in school rehabilitation projects. 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

Walsh MW (2010) Inquiry Focuses on White House Role in Preserving Union Pensions at Delphi. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guenin 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Guenin 2001; Jiang and Srinivasan 2013).

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

Two authors: (Jiang and Srinivasan 2013)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al. 2013)

About the journal

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