This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Physiology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.
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. |
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| 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. |
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 authorvon Hippel FN (2001) Energy. Plutonium and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. Science 293: 2397–2398
A journal article with 2 authorsCowman AF, Crabb BS (2002) The Plasmodium falciparum genome--a blueprint for erythrocyte invasion. Science 298: 126–128
A journal article with 3 authors Nowak MA, Tarnita CE, Wilson EO (2010) The evolution of eusociality. Nature 466: 1057–1062 A journal article with 11 or more authorsPiot P, Bartos M, Ghys PD, Walker N, Schwartländer B (2001) The global impact of HIV/AIDS. Nature 410: 968–973
Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.
An authored book Weller RB, Hunter HJA, Mann MW (2014) Clinical Dermatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK An edited bookTian X (2013) Scalable Multicasting over Next-Generation Internet: Design, Analysis and Applications. Springer, New York, NY
A chapter in an edited bookGibson B, Perentesis J, Alonzo TA, Kaspers GJL (2011) Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. In GH Reaman, FO Smith, eds, Childhood Leukemia: A Practical Handbook. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 121–160
Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Plant Physiology.
Hamilton K (2015) This Is What Your Brain Looks Like With Alzheimer’s Disease. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/animation-what-alzheimers-disease/
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 reportGovernment Accountability Office (2003) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.
Doctoral dissertationAnderson A (2010) Scribblins. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
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 Wagner J (2016) Dodgers’ Late-Inning Gamble Backfires in Cubs’ Timely Grand Slam. New York Times SP2References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:
This sentence cites one reference (von Hippel, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (von Hippel, 2001; Cowman and Crabb, 2002).
Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:
| Full journal title | Plant Physiology |
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| Abbreviation | Plant Physiol. |
| ISSN (print) | 0032-0889 |
| ISSN (online) | 1532-2548 |
| Scope | Plant Science Genetics Physiology |