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

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

Herzfeld, C., 2008. How the change agent has changed. Nature 451, 403–404.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farquhar, G.D., Roderick, M.L., 2003. Atmospheric science. Pinatubo, diffuse light, and the carbon cycle. Science 299, 1997–1998.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson, J.S., Rittle, J., Peters, J.C., 2013. Catalytic conversion of nitrogen to ammonia by an iron model complex. Nature 501, 84–87.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bikondoa, O., Carbone, D., Chamard, V., Metzger, T.H., 2013. Ageing dynamics of ion bombardment induced self-organization processes. Sci. Rep. 3, 1850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bhaskar, K., Varadan Retd., T.K., 2014. Plates. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

McLean, K.C., Pasupathi, M. (Eds.), 2010. Narrative Development in Adolescence: Creating the Storied Self, Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Yoccoz, J.-C., 2011. Small Divisors: Number Theory in Dynamical Systems, in: Schleicher, D., Lackmann, M. (Eds.), An Invitation to Mathematics: From Competitions to Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–54.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2015. NASA Releases Astonishing GoPro Footage From Astronauts POV [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-astronaut-takes-gopro-footage-earth-his-pov/ (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, 1996. NASA Personnel: Challenges to Achieving Workforce Reductions (No. NSIAD-96-176). 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

Dallara, A., 2017. The “femme-homme” of the French Revolution: Gender boundaries and masculinization (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

Bernstein, N., 2016. Bodies Given to N.Y.U. Sent to Mass Graves. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herzfeld, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Farquhar and Roderick, 2003; Herzfeld, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Farquhar and Roderick, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bikondoa et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Plant Physiology
Abbreviation	J. Plant Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0176-1617
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Physiology