How to format your references using the Plant Physiology citation style

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

Resch KJ (2008) Physics. Amplifying a tiny optical effect. Science 319: 733–734

A journal article with 2 authors

Lippman Z, Martienssen R (2004) The role of RNA interference in heterochromatic silencing. Nature 431: 364–370

A journal article with 3 authors

Prins MW, Welters WJ, Weekamp JW (2001) Fluid control in multichannel structures by electrocapillary pressure. Science 291: 277–280

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kiers ET, Rousseau RA, West SA, Denison RF (2003) Host sanctions and the legume-rhizobium mutualism. Nature 425: 78–81

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wootton RJ, Smith C (2014) Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Marcucci C, Hutchens MP, Wittwer ED, Weingarten TN, Sprung J, Nicholson WT, Lalwani K, Metro DG, Dull RO, Swide CE, et al, eds (2015) A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Quinteiro P, Almeida M, Dias AC, Araújo A, Arroja L (2014) The Carbon Footprint of Ceramic Products. In SS Muthu, ed, Assessment of Carbon Footprint in Different Industrial Sectors, Volume 1. Springer, Singapore, pp 113–150

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.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Zika Is No Longer An International Emergency, But The Threat Still Remains. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zika-is-no-longer-an-international-emergency-but-the-threat-still-remains/

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 (2008) Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Performance Management and Strengthen Oversight of the High-Cost Program. 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

Small CR (2013) An investigation on the effect(s) of different modes of intervention for weight management on HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol production among United States veterans. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Brantley B (2017) A Storyteller’s Private Dystopias. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Resch, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lippman and Martienssen, 2004; Resch, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lippman and Martienssen, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kiers et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Physiology
Abbreviation	Plant Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0032-0889
ISSN (online)	1532-2548
Scope	Plant Science Genetics Physiology