How to format your references using the Plant Cell Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Cell Reports. 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

Canup RM (2010) Origin of Saturn’s rings and inner moons by mass removal from a lost Titan-sized satellite. Nature 468:943–946

A journal article with 2 authors

Siefermann KR, Abel B (2010) Chemistry. Ion chemistry mediated by water networks. Science 327:280–281

A journal article with 3 authors

Moses MJ, Fettinger JC, Eichhorn BW (2003) Interpenetrating As20 fullerene and Ni12 icosahedra in the onion-skin [As@Ni12@As20]3- ion. Science 300:778–780

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hess M, Sczyrba A, Egan R, et al (2011) Metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes from cow rumen. Science 331:463–467

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kimberlin L, zur Linden A, Ruoff L (2016) Atlas of Clinical Imaging and Anatomy of the Equine Head. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Soares R, Costa C (eds) (2009) Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Angiogenesis in the Metabolic Syndrome. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Tizghadam A, Bigdeli A, Leon-Garcia A, Naser H (2012) Joint Optimization of Resources and Routes for Minimum Resistance: From Communication Networks to Power Grids. In: Thai MT, Pardalos PM (eds) Handbook of Optimization in Complex Networks: Communication and Social Networks. Springer, New York, NY, pp 97–142

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 Plant Cell Reports.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Watch The Annual Beluga Whale Migration LIVE. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-annual-beluga-whale-migration-canada-here/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2006) Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Efforts Generally Strong but Face Challenges. 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

Catalini M (2012) Intrinsic rewards increase job performance within an organization. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Grazda E, Leland J (2017) Before the Gentry Moved In. New York Times MB8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Canup 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Siefermann and Abel 2010; Canup 2010).

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

Two authors: (Siefermann and Abel 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hess et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Cell Reports
Abbreviation	Plant Cell Rep.
ISSN (print)	0721-7714
ISSN (online)	1432-203X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science General Medicine