How to format your references using the Israel Journal of Plant Sciences citation style

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

Debe MK. 2012. Electrocatalyst approaches and challenges for automotive fuel cells. Nature. 486(7401):43–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zegerman P, Diffley JFX. 2007. Phosphorylation of Sld2 and Sld3 by cyclin-dependent kinases promotes DNA replication in budding yeast. Nature. 445(7125):281–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rowe TB, Macrini TE, Luo Z-X. 2011. Fossil evidence on origin of the mammalian brain. Science. 332(6032):955–957.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Deguchi S, Mukai S-A, Sakaguchi H, Nonomura Y. 2013. Non-engineered nanoparticles of C₆₀. Sci Rep. 3:2094.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cowan JP. 2016. The Effects of Sound on People. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Karantininis K. 2007. Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies: The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry. Nilsson J, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Matteson GC. 2013. Energy Planning for Regional and National Needs: A Case Study – The California Forecast (2005–2050). In: Clark WW II, editor. The Next Economics: Global Cases in Energy, Environment, and Climate Change. New York, NY: Springer; p. 93–124.

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 Israel Journal of Plant Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. World’s Most Lifelike Bionic Hand Developed. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-most-lifelike-bionic-hand-developed/

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. 1988. Urban Mass Transportation Administration’s Enforcement of Buy America Provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Konzem SR. 2017. Tenability and Computability of Generalized Pólya Urns [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Oestreich JR. 2016. For the Record, a Conductor Talks With an Author. New York Times.:C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Debe 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Zegerman and Diffley 2007; Debe 2012).

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

Two authors: (Zegerman and Diffley 2007)
Three or more authors: (Deguchi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Israel Journal of Plant Sciences
Abbreviation	Isr. J. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)	0792-9978
ISSN (online)	2223-8980
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science