How to format your references using the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (JPNSS). 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

Marwan, W. (2010): Systems biology. Amoeba-inspired network design. Science 327, 419–420.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clark, P. U., Mix, A. C. (2000): Ice sheets by volume. Nature 406, 689–690.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hathaway, D. H., Upton, L., Colegrove, O. (2013): Giant convection cells found on the Sun. Science 342, 1217–1219.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, Y., Ruta, V., Chen, J., Lee, A., MacKinnon, R. (2003): The principle of gating charge movement in a voltage-dependent K+ channel. Nature 423, 42–48.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chong, Y. Y. (2004): Investment Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Bahn, K. D. (Ed.) (2015): Proceedings of the 1988 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lukkarinen, J. (2016): Kinetic Theory of Phonons in Weakly Anharmonic Particle Chains, in: Lepri, S. (ed.): Thermal Transport in Low Dimensions: From Statistical Physics to Nanoscale Heat Transfer. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 159–214.

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 Nutrition and Soil Science.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017): Organic Food Alone Cannot Provide A Sustainable Future [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/organic-food-alone-cannot-provide-a-sustainable-future/ (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 (2010): Telecommunications: FCC Should Assess the Design of the E-rate Program’s Internal Control Structure ( No. GAO-10-908). 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

Pecue, C. J. (2015): Utilizing Audiovisual Stimuli in the Classroom to Facilitate Pronunciation of French Stop Consonants. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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): Kendrick Lamar Returns to No. 1. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
Abbreviation	J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci.
ISSN (print)	1436-8730
ISSN (online)	1522-2624
Scope	Soil Science Plant Science