How to format your references using the Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology. 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

Hoag H (2003) Tougher rules aim to prevent gene flow into crops. Nature 422:103

A journal article with 2 authors

Gatenby RA, Maini PK (2003) Mathematical oncology: cancer summed up. Nature 421:321

A journal article with 3 authors

Jedema FJ, Filip AT, Van Wees BJ (2002) Spintronics (Communication arising): Spin accumulation in mesoscopic systems. Nature 416:810

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gong K, Du F, Xia Z, et al (2009) Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube arrays with high electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction. Science 323:760–764

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chadwick P (2008) Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex, England

An edited book

Friedman H, Specter S, Bendinelli M (eds) (2006) In vivo Models of HIV Disease and Control. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Glynn PW, Manzello DP (2015) Bioerosion and Coral Reef Growth: A Dynamic Balance. In: Birkeland C (ed) Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 67–97

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 Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) India’s Tiger Population Is Up 30% Since 2010. 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 (1989) Meeting the Aging Aircraft Challenge: Status and Opportunities. 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

Morales D (2017) Understanding How Perceptions of School Leadership and School Community Relationships Affected Veteran Teachers’ Decisions to Remain Working in Urban Elementary Schools. 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

Nagourney A, Lovett I, Pérez-Peña R (2015) Shooting Rampage Sows Terror in California. 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 (Hoag 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gatenby and Maini 2003; Hoag 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gatenby and Maini 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gong et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Abbreviation	Theor. Exp. Plant Physiol.
ISSN (online)	2197-0025
Scope