How to format your references using the Plant Physiology and Biochemistry citation style

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

Vohs, K.D., 2013. Psychology. The poor’s poor mental power. Science 341, 969–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ray, L.B., Gough, N.R., 2002. Orienteering strategies for a signaling maze. Science 296, 1632–1633.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schwartz, J.H., Tattersall, I., Chi, Z., 2014. Comment on “A complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the evolutionary biology of early Homo.” Science 344, 360.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choi, Y.-R., Zheng, M., Bai, F., Liu, J., Tok, E.-S., Huang, Z., Sow, C.-H., 2014. Laser-induced greenish-blue photoluminescence of mesoporous silicon nanowires. Sci. Rep. 4, 4940.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dexter, A.L., 2012. Monitoring and Control of Information-Poor Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Dollard, M.F., Shimazu, A., Bin Nordin, R., Brough, P., Tuckey, M.R. (Eds.), 2014. Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Recio-García, J.A., Díaz-Agudo, B., González-Calero, P.A., 2014. The COLIBRI Platform: Tools, Features and Working Examples, in: Montani, S., Jain, L.C. (Eds.), Successful Case-Based Reasoning Applications-2, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 55–85.

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 Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Scientists Discover The World’s Largest Sea Sponge [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-worlds-largest-sea-sponge/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Financial Literacy and Education Commission: Progress Made in Fostering Partnerships, but National Strategy Remains Largely Descriptive Rather Than Strategic (No. GAO-09-638T). 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

Garcia, C.A., 2010. Tracking chemistry self-efficacy and achievement in a preparatory chemistry course (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Belson, K., 2017. Head Coach of Broncos Is Expected to Retire. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vohs, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Ray and Gough, 2002; Vohs, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ray and Gough, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Plant Physiol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0981-9428
Scope	Plant Science Genetics Physiology