How to format your references using the New Negatives in Plant Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Negatives in Plant Science. 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

[1]

A.E. Egger, IBI series winner. Engaging students in earthquakes via real-time data and decisions, Science 336 (2012) 1654–1655.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.J. Weaver, C. Hillaire-Marcel, Ocean science. Global warming and the next ice age, Science 304 (2004) 400–402.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Maeda, D.V.L. Norum, T.F. Gallagher, Microwave manipulation of an atomic electron in a classical orbit, Science 307 (2005) 1757–1760.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Jo, K. Jung, J. Kim, H. Woo, J. Han, H. Kim, J. Hong, J.-K. Lee, H. Im, Resistance switching mode transformation in SrRuO3/Cr-doped SrZrO3/Pt frameworks via a thermally activated Ti out-diffusion process, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.K. Adhikari, Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

C. Margottini, P. Canuti, K. Sassa, eds., Landslide Science and Practice: Volume 6: Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Didier, Alain Desrosières’s spectacles: one lens realist, the other constructivist, in: I. Bruno, F. Jany-Catrice, B. Touchelay (Eds.), The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 43–53.

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 New Negatives in Plant Science.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Maine’s Governor Bans Road Signs For National Monument Out Of “Spite,” IFLScience (2017).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Army Logistics: Better Approach Needed to Identify Systemic Causes of Problem Parts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.W. Necaise, Effects of soybean-derived phytoestrogens on reproductive tract development in neonatal male and female pigs: Animal model for the human infant, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2012.

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

[1]

R. Minder, R. Callimachi, Officials Hunting for a Moroccan Man in the Barcelona Attack Investigation, New York Times (2017) A9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	New Negatives in Plant Science
Abbreviation	New Negat. Plant Sci.
ISSN (print)	2352-0264
Scope	Plant Science Biochemistry Molecular Biology