How to format your references using the Annual Review of Plant Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Plant Biology. 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 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

Daiger SP. 2005. Genetics. Was the Human Genome Project worth the effort? Science. 308(5720):362–64

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaufman J, Jing J. 2002. China and AIDS--the time to act is now. Science. 296(5577):2339–40

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman LKG, Lovell MM, Weix DJ. 2015. Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates. Nature. 524(7566):454–57

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Silva TAG, Teixeira-Neto E, López N, Rossi LM. 2014. Volcano-like behavior of Au-Pd core-shell nanoparticles in the selective oxidation of alcohols. Sci. Rep. 4:5766

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simpkins CA, Simpkins AM. 2011. Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fitzgerald RC, ed. 2011. Pre-Invasive Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Management. New York, NY: Springer. XXII, 519 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanley KO, Lehman J. 2015. The False Compass. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, ed J Lehman, pp. 29–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 Annual Review of Plant Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2017. Time Crystals: How Scientists Created A New State Of Matter. IFLScience

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. 1990. Air Traffic Control: Ineffective Management Plagues $1.7-Billion Radar Program. IMTEC-90-37, 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

Nikolova S. 2010. Health insurance transitions of SCHIP-eligible children in response to higher public premiums. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of North Carolina

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

Neuman W. 2014. Mayor’s Ouster Is Approved in Colombia. New York Times, March 21, p. A9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (4–6, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Plant Biology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Plant Biol.
ISSN (print)	1543-5008
ISSN (online)	1545-2123
Scope	Plant Science Cell Biology Molecular Biology Physiology General Medicine