How to format your references using the Tree Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tree 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	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

Brune H (2006) Applied physics. Assembly and probing of spin chains of finite size. Science 312:1005–1006.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burlini L, Di Toro G (2008) Geophysics. Volcanic symphony in the lab. Science 322:207–208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baxt LA, Garza-Mayers AC, Goldberg MB (2013) Bacterial subversion of host innate immune pathways. Science 340:697–701.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yin L, Wang J, Klein PS, Lazar MA (2006) Nuclear receptor Rev-erbalpha is a critical lithium-sensitive component of the circadian clock. Science 311:1002–1005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

von Eye A, Mun E-Y (2012) Log-Linear Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Clément G, Bukley A (eds) (2007) Artificial Gravity. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Klyce SD, Palanker DV, Edwards KH, Krueger RR (2013) Imaging Systems and Image-Guided Surgery. In: Krueger RR, Talamo JH, Lindstrom RL (eds) Textbook of Refractive Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (ReLACS). Springer, New York, NY, pp 49–58.

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 Tree Physiology.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Brain Synapses Last as Long as Memories Do. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-synapses-last-long-memories-do/ (30 October 2018, date last accessed ).

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 (1995) Space Shuttle: NASA Must Reduce Costs Further to Operate Within Future Projected Funds. 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

Laird EC (2012) Training social workers to use solution-focused interviewing with Child Protective Services clients: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Urbina I (2015) Tricked While on Land, Abused or Killed at Sea. 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 (Brune 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Brune 2006, Burlini and Di Toro 2008).

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

Two authors: (Burlini and Di Toro 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yin et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tree Physiology
Abbreviation	Tree Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0829-318X
ISSN (online)	1758-4469
Scope	Plant Science Physiology