How to format your references using the Physiologia Plantarum citation style

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

Hughson FM (2013) Neuroscience. Chaperones that SNARE neurotransmitter release. Science 339: 406–407

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulain AJ, Barkay T (2013) Environmental science. Cracking the mercury methylation code. Science 339: 1280–1281

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen W, Shimada S, Tanaka M (2002) Synthesis and structure of formally hexavalent palladium complexes. Science 295: 308–310

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Silva JP, von Meyenn F, Howell J, Thorens B, Wolfrum C, Stoffel M (2009) Regulation of adaptive behaviour during fasting by hypothalamic Foxa2. Nature 462: 646–650

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bliesner DM (2006) Establishing a CGMP Laboratory Audit System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Li Y, Kaiser G (eds) (2011) Expertise in Mathematics Instruction: An International Perspective. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Johannes WJ, Smilde PL (2009) Qualitative Interpretation. In: Smilde PL (ed) Gravity Interpretation: Fundamentals and Application of Gravity Inversion and Geological Interpretation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 181–231

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 Physiologia Plantarum.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) How Oil Spills From Wartime Sea Battles Nearly Wiped Out Famous Welsh Guillemots. Available At https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-oil-spills-from-wartime-sea-battles-nearly-wiped-out-famous-welsh-guillemots/ (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 (1989) Federal Research: Assessment of Small Business Innovation Research Programs

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Motala S (2009) Siblings caring for elderly parents with dementia. 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

Tabarrok A, Rajagopalan S (2015) Private Cities, Open to All. New York Times A25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hughson 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hughson 2013; Poulain and Barkay 2013).

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

Two authors: (Poulain and Barkay 2013)
Three or more authors: (Silva et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Physiologia Plantarum
ISSN (print)	0031-9317
ISSN (online)	1399-3054
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