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

Ellis GFR (2005) Physics, complexity and causality. Nature 435:743

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiøtz J, Jacobsen KW (2003) A maximum in the strength of nanocrystalline copper. Science 301:1357–1359

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao Y, Jiang J, Huang H (2014) Chemical dechlorination of hexachlorobenzene with polyethylene glycol and hydroxide: dominant effect of temperature and ionic potential. Sci Rep 4:6305

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gibson QD, Evtushinsky D, Yaresko AN, et al (2014) Quasi one dimensional Dirac electrons on the surface of Ru₂Sn₃. Sci Rep 4:5168

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diver DA (2013) Plasma Formulary for Physics, Astronomy, and Technology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Atluri V, Diaz C (eds) (2011) Computer Security – ESORICS 2011: 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Leuven, Belgium, September 12-14,2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bertolissi C, Ranise S (2013) Verification of Composed Array-Based Systems with Applications to Security-Aware Workflows. In: Fontaine P, Ringeissen C, Schmidt RA (eds) Frontiers of Combining Systems: 9th International Symposium, FroCoS 2013, Nancy, France, September 18-20, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–55

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 Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Wasps Turn Spiders Into Their Zombie Bodyguards, Then Kill Them. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wasps-turn-spiders-their-zombie-bodyguards-then-kill-them/. 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 (2014) FAA Reauthorization Act: Progress and Challenges Implementing Various Provisions of the 2012 Act. 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

Kurulugama RT (2009) Overtone mobility spectrometry. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Bilefsky D (2012) Region’s Struggles Seen In a Romanian Scandal. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellis 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Schiøtz and Jacobsen 2003; Ellis 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schiøtz and Jacobsen 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gibson et al. 2014)

About the journal

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

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