How to format your references using the Plant Growth Regulation citation style

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

Grünbaum D (2006) Behavior. Align in the sand. Science 312:1320–1322

A journal article with 2 authors

Moellering RE, Cravatt BF (2013) Functional lysine modification by an intrinsically reactive primary glycolytic metabolite. Science 341:549–553

A journal article with 3 authors

Bugreev DV, Mazina OM, Mazin AV (2006) Rad54 protein promotes branch migration of Holliday junctions. Nature 442:590–593

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dupuis S, Dargemont C, Fieschi C, et al (2001) Impairment of mycobacterial but not viral immunity by a germline human STAT1 mutation. Science 293:300–303

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes A (2013) Extractive Metallurgy 2. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Hamilton D (2014) Blackboards and Bootstraps: Revisioning Education and Schooling. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Soltakhanov SK, Yushkov MP, Zegzhda SA (2009) The Mixed Problem Of Dynamics. New Class Of Control Problems. In: Yushkov MP, Zegzhda SA (eds) Mechanics of non-holonomic systems: A New Class of control systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 125–148

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 Growth Regulation.

Blog post

Evans K (2016) Most Vitamins Are Useless, But There’s One You Could Probably Use. 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 (2009) Responses to Questions for the Record: February 11, 2009, Hearing on the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009. 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

McCain AK (2015) Influence of market setting and time of purchase on counts of aerobic bacteria, Escherichia coli, and coliform and prevalence of Salmonella and Listeria in beef, pork, and chicken in Vietnam. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices, Voting 5-4, Limit the Use of Race In Integration Plans. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grünbaum 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Grünbaum 2006; Moellering and Cravatt 2013).

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

Two authors: (Moellering and Cravatt 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dupuis et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Growth Regulation
Abbreviation	Plant Growth Regul.
ISSN (print)	0167-6903
ISSN (online)	1573-5087
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Physiology