How to format your references using the Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture. 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

Nowak MA (2004) Prisoners of the dilemma. Nature 427:491

A journal article with 2 authors

Chittka L, Schürkens S (2001) Successful invasion of a floral market. Nature 411:653

A journal article with 3 authors

Jonsson GE, Miljkovic V, Dmitriev A (2014) Nanoplasmon-enabled macroscopic thermal management. Sci Rep 4:5111

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gross O, Gewies A, Finger K, et al (2006) Card9 controls a non-TLR signalling pathway for innate anti-fungal immunity. Nature 442:651–656

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leddra M (2010) Time Matters. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Deeg K-H (2015) Doppler Sonography in Infancy and Childhood. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Frenkel E, Gaitsgory D (2010) Weyl Modules and Opers without Monodromy. In: Ceyhan Ö, Manin YI, Marcolli M (eds) Arithmetic and Geometry Around Quantization. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp 101–121

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, Tissue and Organ Culture.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Which Is The World’s Deadliest Spider, Really? In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Is Addressing Challenges of Its Expanded Mission and Workforce, but Additional Actions Needed. 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

Andrews A (2013) Yoga as mental health treatment for cancer survivors: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

McKINLEY JC Jr, Baker AL (2017) Trial to Open in Case That Highlights Complaints About Justice System. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nowak 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Chittka and Schürkens 2001; Nowak 2004).

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

Two authors: (Chittka and Schürkens 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gross et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
Abbreviation	Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult.
ISSN (print)	0167-6857
ISSN (online)	1573-5044
Scope	Horticulture