How to format your references using the Functional Plant Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Functional 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

Ziemelis K (2003) Hydrocarbon reservoirs. Nature 426(6964), 317.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schulz HN, Schulz HD (2005) Large sulfur bacteria and the formation of phosphorite. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307(5708), 416–418.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao J, Murray S, Lipuma JJ (2014) Modeling the impact of antibiotic exposure on human microbiota. Scientific reports 4, 4345.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hermanson KD, Lumsdon SO, Williams JP, Kaler EW, Velev OD (2001) Dielectrophoretic assembly of electrically functional microwires from nanoparticle suspensions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294(5544), 1082–1086.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’homme R (2012) ‘Flows and Chemical Reactions’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Wilcock N (2016) ‘Hartmut Elsenhans and a Critique of Capitalism: Conversations on Theory and Policy Implications’ (Ed. C Scholz) (Palgrave Macmillan UK: London).

A chapter in an edited book

Adeli A, Sinaee M, Zomorodian MJ, Hamzeh A (2013) Harmony-Based Feature Weighting to Improve the Nearest Neighbor Classification. In ‘Advances in Computing and Information Technology: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ACITY) July 13-15, 2012, Chennai, India - Volume 2.’ Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. (Eds N Meghanathan, D Nagamalai, N Chaki) pp. 27–36. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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 Functional Plant Biology.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Newly Described Orchid Has A Tiny Demon At Its Center. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-described-orchid-has-a-tiny-demon-at-its-center/ [accessed 30 October 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 (1991) Index Digest of the Published Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Volumes 66-70, September 1991. 156871. 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

Hong AN (2017) A Diastereomeric Strategy in the Construction of Homochiral Metal-Organic Architectures. 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

Rosenberg E, Surico J (2016) Beam Falls From a Crane, Killing 2 Workers in Queens. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ziemelis 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ziemelis 2003; Schulz and Schulz 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schulz and Schulz 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hermanson et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Functional Plant Biology
Abbreviation	Funct. Plant Biol.
ISSN (print)	1445-4408
ISSN (online)	1445-4416
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science