How to format your references using the Journal of Vegetation Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Vegetation Science (JVS). 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

Ledford, H. (2006) Liquid fuel synthesis: making it up as you go along. Nature, 444(7120), 677–678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richter, D.D., Jr, & Mobley, M.L. (2009) Environment. Monitoring Earth’s critical zone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5956), 1067–1068.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glazier, A.M., Nadeau, J.H., & Aitman, T.J. (2002) Finding genes that underlie complex traits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5602), 2345–2349.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Marvier, M., McCreedy, C., Regetz, J., & Kareiva, P. (2007) A meta-analysis of effects of Bt cotton and maize on nontarget invertebrates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5830), 1475–1477.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hase, Y. (2012) Handbook of Power Systems Engineering with Power Electronics Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hu, W. (Ed.). (2011) Electronics and Signal Processing: Selected Papers from the 2011 International Conference on Electric and Electronics (EEIC 2011) in Nanchang, China on June 20–22, 2011, Volume 1. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Maréchal, L. (2009) Advances in Octree-Based All-Hexahedral Mesh Generation: Handling Sharp Features. In: Clark, B.W. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–84.

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 Vegetation Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015) Nanoparticles Used To Remove Pollutants Could Lead To Cleaner Drinking Water And Soil. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nanoparticles-used-remove-pollutants-could-lead-cleaner-drinking-water-and-soil/ [Accessed 30 October 2018]

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. (1992) Natural Gas Pipelines: Greater Use of Instrumented Inspection Technology Can Improve Safety. 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

Conner, P.A. (2009) The STAR Math test as a predictor of Arkansas BenchmarkTest scores.

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

Walsh, M.W. (2015) Volcker Sees Hidden Peril in State Budget Practices New York Times B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ledford, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ledford, 2006; Richter & Mobley, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Richter & Mobley, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Marvier et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Vegetation Science
Abbreviation	J. Veg. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1100-9233
ISSN (online)	1654-1103
Scope	Plant Science Ecology