How to format your references using the Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 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

Donovan, M.S., 2013. Generating improvement through research and development in education systems. Science 340, 317–319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schneider, R.A., Helms, J.A., 2003. The cellular and molecular origins of beak morphology. Science 299, 565–568.

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Heuvel, M.G.L., de Graaff, M.P., Dekker, C., 2006. Molecular sorting by electrical steering of microtubules in kinesin-coated channels. Science 312, 910–914.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, Y., Zha, G., Luo, Q., Zhang, J., Zhang, F., Li, Xiaohui, Zhao, S., Zhu, W., Li, Xiaodong, 2014. The construction of hierarchical structure on Ti substrate with superior osteogenic activity and intrinsic antibacterial capability. Sci. Rep. 4, 6172.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mastro, M., 2013. Financial Derivative and Energy Market Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jerjen, H., Koribalski, B.S. (Eds.), 2008. Galaxies in the Local Volume, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Masciullo, V., Di Cesare, C., Paris, I., 2016. Advances in Ovarian Cancer and Ongoing Clinical Trials, in: Giordano, A., Macaluso, M. (Eds.), Gynecological Cancers: Genetic and Epigenetic Targets and Drug Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–77.

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 Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Why Do We Kiss? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-we-kiss/ (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, 2006. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Knowledge-Based Acquisition Approach Key to Addressing Program Challenges (No. GAO-06-634). 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

Leesombatpiboon, P., 2010. Thailand’s energy security: Strategic Petroleum Reserve and its economic impacts (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Lee, L., 2008. A Clean Desk, At Least For Starters. New York Times F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Donovan, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Donovan, 2013; Schneider and Helms, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Schneider and Helms, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
Abbreviation	Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1433-8319
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science