How to format your references using the Horticultural Plant Journal citation style

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

El-Azab, A., 2008. Materials science. The statistical mechanics of strain-hardened metals. Science 320, 1729–1730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Higgins, A.M., Jones, R.A., 2000. Anisotropic spinodal dewetting as a route to self-assembly of patterned surfaces. Nature 404, 476–478.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaeberlein, M., Rabinovitch, P.S., Martin, G.M., 2015. Healthy aging: The ultimate preventative medicine. Science 350, 1191–1193.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Myong, S., Cui, S., Cornish, P.V., Kirchhofer, A., Gack, M.U., Jung, J.U., Hopfner, K.-P., Ha, T., 2009. Cytosolic viral sensor RIG-I is a 5’-triphosphate-dependent translocase on double-stranded RNA. Science 323, 1070–1074.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sengupta, D.L., Liepa, V.V., 2005. Applied Electromagnetics and Electromagnetic Compatibility. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gebhart, G.F., Schmidt, R.F. (Eds.), 2013. Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Abbas, S., Benchohra, M., 2015. Partial Functional Evolution Inclusions with Finite Delay, in: Benchohra, M. (Ed.), Advanced Functional Evolution Equations and Inclusions, Developments in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 113–126.

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 Horticultural Plant Journal.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Why Does Marijuana Give You The Munchies? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/marijuana-triggers-munchies-flipping-hunger-switch-brain/ (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, 1994. Tax Systems Modernization: Status of Planning and Technical Foundation (No. T-AIMD/GGD-94-104). 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

Thompson, P., 2012. An exploratory study of work-related imagined interactions with real-life coworkers (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Sisario, B., 2017. How Did It Feel to Be on Their Own? New York Times AR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (El-Azab, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (El-Azab, 2008; Higgins and Jones, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Higgins and Jones, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Myong et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Horticultural Plant Journal
Abbreviation	Hortic. Plant J.
ISSN (print)	2468-0141
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