How to format your references using the Plant Reproduction citation style

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

Bolker J (2012) Model organisms: There’s more to life than rats and flies. Nature 491:31–33

A journal article with 2 authors

New AM, Lehner B (2015) Systems biology: Network evolution hinges on history. Nature 523:297–298

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyagoshi T, Kageyama A, Sato T (2010) Zonal flow formation in the Earth’s core. Nature 463:793–796

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li Z-Y, Wang Y-Z, He L-M, Zheng H-J (2014) Metabolic profiles of prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities in deep-sea sponge Neamphius huxleyi [corrected]. indicated by metagenomics. Sci Rep 4:3895

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartoszyǹski R, Niewiadomska-Bugaj M (2007) Probability and Statistical Inference, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Shah RB (2012) Prostate Biopsy Interpretation: An Illustrated Guide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Damon J, Giblin P, Haslinger G (2016) Abstract Classification of Singularities Preserving Features. In: Giblin P, Haslinger G (eds) Local Features in Natural Images via Singularity Theory. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 35–39

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 Reproduction.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) So What If Some Female Olympians Have High Testosterone? 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 (2005) Head Start: Comprehensive Approach to Identifying and Addressing Risks Could Help Prevent Grantee Financial Management Weaknesses. 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

Rivera A (2010) A post analysis of an advanced access appointment model. 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

Kelly C (2011) Living With the Sweet Smell of Sap. New York Times C25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bolker 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bolker 2012; New and Lehner 2015).

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

Two authors: (New and Lehner 2015)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Reproduction
Abbreviation	Plant Reprod.
ISSN (print)	2194-7953
ISSN (online)	2194-7961
Scope	Plant Science Cell Biology