How to format your references using the Plant Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Laming JM (2010) Astronomy. More supernova surprises. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 1604–1605.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sitia R and Braakman I (2003) Quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum protein factory. Nature 426: 891–894.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sund J, Andér M and Aqvist J (2010) Principles of stop-codon reading on the ribosome. Nature 465: 947–950.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Ozer MM, Jia Y, Zhang Z, Thompson JR and Weitering HH (2007) Tuning the quantum stability and superconductivity of ultrathin metal alloys. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 1594–1597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirwan MJ (2013) Handbook of Paper and Paperboard Packaging Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Oxford.

An edited book

Bährer-Kohler S (ed) (2013) Burnout for Experts: Prevention in the Context of Living and Working. Springer US: Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Loktev M and Vdovin G (2005) Technology and Operation of a Liquid Crystal Modal Wavefront Corrector. In: Wittrock U (ed). Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop Münster, Germany, Oct. 19–24, 2003. Springer Proceedings in Physics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–33.

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 Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization.

Blog post

Squid Can Recode Their Own Genetics (2015) IFLScience. See https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/squid-recode-their-own-genetics/ (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 (1988) ADP Planning: Allegations of Inadequate Procurements at the National Archives. IMTEC-88-34. 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

Mihalcin D (2008) A comparison of the Children’s Functional Assessment Rating Scale and the Child Behavior Checklist used in a wraparound program. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

New York Times (2013) Lawyers Hint At Possibility Of Recovery Of Stolen Art. 13 August.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laming, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Sitia and Braakman, 2003; Laming, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Sitia and Braakman, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ozer et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization
ISSN (print)	1479-2621
ISSN (online)	1479-263X
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