How to format your references using the The Plant Genome citation style

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

Rine, J. (2005). Cell biology. Twists in the tale of the aging yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310, 1124–1125

A journal article with 2 authors

Arenkiel, B.R., & Ehlers, M.D. (2009). Molecular genetics and imaging technologies for circuit-based neuroanatomy. Nature, 461, 900–907

A journal article with 3 authors

Bielawski, C.W., Benitez, D., & Grubbs, R.H. (2002). An “endless” route to cyclic polymers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297, 2041–2044

A journal article with 4 or more authors

James, A.B., Monreal, J.A., Nimmo, G.A., Kelly, C.L., Herzyk, P., Jenkins, G.I., & Nimmo, H.G. (2008). The circadian clock in Arabidopsis roots is a simplified slave version of the clock in shoots. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322, 1832–1835

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taha, A.-E.M., Hassanein, H.S., & Ali, N.A. (2011). LTE, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Giacobini, M. ed. (2007). Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2007: EvoCoMnet, EvoFIN, EvoIASP,EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC and EvoTransLog. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Norguet, J.-P., Zimányi, E., & Steinberger, R. (2009). Semantic Analysis of Web Site Audience by Integrating Web Usage Mining and Web Content Mining. In I.-H. Ting & H.-J. Wu (Eds.), Web Mining Applications in E-commerce and E-services (pp. 65–80). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 The Plant Genome.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Is This Really What Happens To Your Body 60 Minutes After Drinking A Can Of Coke? https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-does-coca-cola-affect-your-body-hour-after-drinking-stuff/ (accessed October 30, 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. (1995). Nonimmigrant Visa Processing. 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

Parsons, J.R. (2010). Throwing a wrench in the translational machinery: Discovery of RNA ligands by fluorescence techniques [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Saslow, L. (2006). On the Home Lawn, Where Alligators Roam. New York Times, 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rine, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Rine, 2005; Arenkiel & Ehlers, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Arenkiel & Ehlers, 2009)
Three or more authors: (James et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Plant Genome
Abbreviation	Plant Genome
ISSN (online)	1940-3372
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Genetics