How to format your references using the Acta Physiologiae Plantarum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Physiologiae Plantarum. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Nattel S (2002) New ideas about atrial fibrillation 50 years on. Nature 415:219–226

A journal article with 2 authors

Ryan KK, Seeley RJ (2013) Physiology. Food as a hormone. Science 339:918–919

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooke J, Rosenbaum TF, Aeppli G (2001) Tunable quantum tunnelling of magnetic domain walls. Nature 413:610–613

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang Z-Y, Kong W-P, Huang Y, et al (2004) A DNA vaccine induces SARS coronavirus neutralization and protective immunity in mice. Nature 428:561–564

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meschede D (2017) Optics, Light, and Lasers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Jungck P (2011) packetC Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Soler L, Marescaux J (2016) Virtual Surgical Simulation: The First Steps in a New Training. In: Fauquet-Alekhine P, Pehuet N (eds) Simulation Training: Fundamentals and Applications: Improving Professional Practice Through Simulation Training. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 95–117

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 Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Solar Flare Filmed in Exquisite Detail. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-flare-filmed-exquisite-detail/. 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 (1982) Ocean Mining Technology Transfer (Best available copy). 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

San Miguel AM (2010) Lived experiences and perceptions on mentoring among Latina scientists and engineers. 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

Crow K (2000) The Student, the Sleuth and the Mysterious Pillow. New York Times 141

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nattel 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Nattel 2002; Ryan and Seeley 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ryan and Seeley 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Physiologiae Plantarum
Abbreviation	Acta Physiol. Plant
ISSN (print)	0137-5881
ISSN (online)	1861-1664
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Physiology