How to format your references using the Environmental and Experimental Botany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental and Experimental Botany. 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

Cattaneo, A., 2015. Astrophysics: The slow death of red galaxies. Nature 521, 164–165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stolinsky, D.C., Rubinstein, E., 2000. Science’s Conversation with Jiang Zemin. Science 289, 548–549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoffelen, J.-M., Oostenveld, R., Fries, P., 2005. Neuronal coherence as a mechanism of effective corticospinal interaction. Science 308, 111–113.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Leinekugel, X., Khazipov, R., Cannon, R., Hirase, H., Ben-Ari, Y., Buzsáki, G., 2002. Correlated bursts of activity in the neonatal hippocampus in vivo. Science 296, 2049–2052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet, G., Charbit, M., 2015. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using Matlab®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Topaloglu, R.O. (Ed.), 2015. More than Moore Technologies for Next Generation Computer Design. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanley, K.O., Lehman, J., 2015. The False Compass, in: Lehman, J. (Ed.), Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 29–38.

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 Environmental and Experimental Botany.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. The Surprising Secrets Of Wolf Spiders’ Sex Lives Include Singing And “Twerking” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-surprising-secrets-of-wolf-spiders-sex-lives-include-singing-and-twerking/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Federal Motor Carrier Safety: Modifying the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program Would Improve the Ability to Identify High Risk Carriers (No. GAO-14-114). 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

Frisbee, K.L., 2015. The impact of mobile health (mhealth) technology on family caregiver’s burden levels and an assessment of variations in mhealth tool use (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. Selling Us a Better Vision of Ourselves. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cattaneo, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cattaneo, 2015; Stolinsky and Rubinstein, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Stolinsky and Rubinstein, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Leinekugel et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental and Experimental Botany
Abbreviation	Environ. Exp. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0098-8472
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science