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

Andersson SGE (2006) Genetics. The bacterial world gets smaller. Science 314:259–260

A journal article with 2 authors

Scruggs J, Jacob P (2009) Engineering. Harvesting ocean wave energy. Science 323:1176–1178

A journal article with 3 authors

Di Toro G, Goldsby DL, Tullis TE (2004) Friction falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates. Nature 427:436–439

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pawin G, Wong KL, Kwon K-Y, Bartels L (2006) A homomolecular porous network at a Cu(111) surface. Science 313:961–962

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Myatt GJ, Johnson WP (2011) Making Sense of Data III. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Iacobelli P, Leary D, Takahashi S (eds) (2016) Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Pannocchia G (2015) Distributed Model Predictive Control. In: Baillieul J, Samad T (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London, pp 301–308

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

Hale T (2016) We Just Learned A New Secret About The Great Pyramid Of Giza. 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 (1992) The United States in Europe: Staying the Course to Win the Peace. 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

Spratley AM (2010) Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Walsh MW, Hurdle J (2013) Harrisburg Sees Path to Restructuring Debts Without Bankruptcy Filing. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andersson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Andersson 2006; Scruggs and Jacob 2009).

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

Two authors: (Scruggs and Jacob 2009)
Three or more authors: (Pawin et al. 2006)

About the journal

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