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

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

Patel DJ. 2014. RNA. Complete pairing not needed. Science. 346(6209):542–543.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gorin DJ, Toste FD. 2007. Relativistic effects in homogeneous gold catalysis. Nature. 446(7134):395–403.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elf J, Li G-W, Xie XS. 2007. Probing transcription factor dynamics at the single-molecule level in a living cell. Science. 316(5828):1191–1194.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Ciocchi S, Herry C, Grenier F, Wolff SBE, Letzkus JJ, Vlachos I, Ehrlich I, Sprengel R, Deisseroth K, Stadler MB, et al. 2010. Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits. Nature. 468(7321):277–282.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yevick D, Yevick H. 2014. Fundamental Math and Physics for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jewitt D. 2008. Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets. Morbidelli A, Rauer H, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lonborg SD, Travis CB. 2007. Living Longer, Healthier Lives. In: Muhlbauer V, Chrisler JC, editors. Women Over 50: Psychological Perspectives. Boston, MA: Springer US; p. 53–78.

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 Journal of Plant Interactions.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2016. These Are 13 Of The Hottest Places On Earth. IFLScience.

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. 2009. Polar-Orbiting Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making. 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

Hakes CJ. 2010. Off -campus work and its relationship to students’ experiences with faculty using the College Student Experiences Questionnaire [Doctoral dissertation]. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Milhollin G, Motz K. 2004. Nukes “R” Us. New York Times.:A29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patel 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gorin and Toste 2007; Patel 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gorin and Toste 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ciocchi et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Interactions
Abbreviation	J. Plant Interact.
ISSN (print)	1742-9145
ISSN (online)	1742-9153
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science