How to format your references using the New Phytologist citation style

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

Hirsch JE. 2002. Superconductivity. The true colors of cuprates. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 2226–2227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckley SA, Evershed RP. 2001. Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman mummies. Nature 413: 837–841.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maduwage K, O’Leary MA, Isbister GK. 2014. Diagnosis of snake envenomation using a simple phospholipase A2 assay. Scientific reports 4: 4827.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hoffmann DL, Standish CD, García-Diez M, Pettitt PB, Milton JA, Zilhão J, Alcolea-González JJ, Cantalejo-Duarte P, Collado H, de Balbín R, et al. 2018. U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art. Science (New York, N.Y.) 359: 912–915.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keene J. 2008. Clients with Complex Needs: Interprofessional Practice. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Jiang Z (Ed.). 2005. Shock Waves: Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves Beijing, China July 11–16, 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Madeddu G, Spanu A. 2008. Axillary Lymph Node Status Evaluation in Breast Cancer Patients: Role of SPECT and Pinhole SPECT with Cationic Lipophilic Radiotracers. In: Bombardieri E, Gianni L, Bonadonna G, eds. Breast Cancer: Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 43–55.

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 Phytologist.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2016. The Speed Of Light May Not Be As Constant As We Thought It Was. 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. 2000. FAA Computer Security: Concerns Remain Due to Personnel and Other Continuing Weaknesses. 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

Pan A. 2017. The Mental Health and Well-Being of College Students in Cambodia.

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

Feeney K. 2008. Salads, Sandwiches, And Parking. New York Times: NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hirsch, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Buckley & Evershed, 2001; Hirsch, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Buckley & Evershed, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hoffmann et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Phytologist
Abbreviation	New Phytol.
ISSN (print)	0028-646X
ISSN (online)	1469-8137
Scope	Plant Science Physiology