How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Plant Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 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

Brownlee, M. 2001. Biochemistry and molecular cell biology of diabetic complications. Nature 414: 813–820.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bezemer, T.M., and van der Putten, W.H. 2007. Ecology: diversity and stability in plant communities. Nature 446: E6-7; discussion E7-8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeyl, C., Vanderford, T., and Carter, M. 2003. An evolutionary advantage of haploidy in large yeast populations. Science 299: 555–558.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pfleiderer, C., Böni, P., Keller, T., Rössler, U.K., and Rosch, A. 2007. Non-Fermi liquid metal without quantum criticality. Science 316: 1871–1874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosplock, K. 2017. The Complete Direct Investing Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dib, N., Taylor, D.A., and Diethrich, E.B. (eds.) 2006. Stem Cell Therapy and Tissue Engineering for Cardiovascular Repair: From Basic Research to Clinical Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Brunner, R.D., and Lynch, A.H. 2010. Opening the Regime. Pages 187–260 in A.H. Lynch, ed. Adaptive Governance and Climate Change. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA.

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 Canadian Journal of Plant Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015.August 2. Mass Inhalation Of Laughing Gas In London To Protest Crack Down On Legal Highs. IFLScience. [Online] Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/laughing-gas/ [2018 Oct. 30].

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 1994. Buyouts at the Department of Education. 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

Morrison, G.K. 2010. Self-reported, interview-assisted diet records underreport protein and energy intake in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. 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

Loomis, G. 2012.November 6. Carnal Knowledge in a Modern Metropolis: Babylon. New York Times: 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brownlee 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Brownlee 2001; Bezemer and van der Putten 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bezemer and van der Putten 2007)
Three or more authors: (Pfleiderer et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Plant Science
Abbreviation	Can. J. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)	0008-4220
ISSN (online)	1918-1833
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Horticulture Plant Science