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

Zuk M (2010) Evolution. Dance like no one is watching, sing like no one is listening? Science 328:1237–1238

A journal article with 2 authors

Downer M, Zgadzaj R (2014) Accelerator physics: Surf’s up at SLAC. Nature 515:40–41

A journal article with 3 authors

Heywood KJ, Naveira Garabato AC, Stevens DP (2002) High mixing rates in the abyssal Southern Ocean. Nature 415:1011–1014

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brill TM, Ryu S, Gaylor R, et al (2002) Nonresonant multiple spin echoes. Science 297:369–372

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuus M (2013) Geopolitics and Expertise. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Liu X (2013) Location Privacy Protection in Mobile Networks. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Moghaddam B, Pehrson AL (2010) Disinhibition of Prefrontal Cortex Neurons in Schizophrenia. In: Gattaz WF, Busatto G (eds) Advances in Schizophrenia Research 2009. Springer, New York, NY, pp 99–111

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 (2015) Divers Encounter Enormous Ocean Sunfish. 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 (1987) [Comments on Customs Commissioner’s Alleged Unauthorized Use of Government Automobiles]. 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

Caraballo-Cole T (2012) Mindfulness-based mental health services for single mothers: A grant proposal. 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

Sisario B (2017) ‘Fake’ Stars On Spotify? The Reality May Differ. 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 (Zuk 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zuk 2010; Downer and Zgadzaj 2014).

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

Two authors: (Downer and Zgadzaj 2014)
Three or more authors: (Brill et al. 2002)

About the journal

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