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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical and Experimental 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	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

Egger J (2014) Refinement-cut: user-guided segmentation algorithm for translational science. Sci Rep 4:5164

A journal article with 2 authors

Stellwagen D, Malenka RC (2006) Synaptic scaling mediated by glial TNF-alpha. Nature 440:1054–1059

A journal article with 3 authors

Rockman HA, Koch WJ, Lefkowitz RJ (2002) Seven-transmembrane-spanning receptors and heart function. Nature 415:206–212

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blekhman R, Perry GH, Shahbaz S, et al (2014) Comparative metabolomics in primates reveals the effects of diet and gene regulatory variation on metabolic divergence. Sci Rep 4:5809

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Turner JR, Durham TA (2008) Integrated Cardiac Safety: Assessment Methodologies for Noncardiac Drugs in Discovery, Development, and Postmarketing Surveillance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Poesio M, Stuckardt R, Versley Y (eds) (2016) Anaphora Resolution: Algorithms, Resources, and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wendler E, Wesch W (2016) Primary Processes of Damage Formation in Semiconductors. In: Wesch W, Wendler E (eds) Ion Beam Modification of Solids: Ion-Solid Interaction and Radiation Damage. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 189–241

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 Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Why Is The Sun’s Outer Layer 200 Times Hotter Than Its Surface? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-suns-outer-layer-200-times-hotter-one-below/. 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 (1990) Federal Communications Commission: Strategic Focus Needed to Improve Information Resources Management. 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

Long RE (2011) Performance Assessment of Predicted Heat Strain in High Heat Stress Exposures. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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 K, Rappeport A (2017) White House Tempers Ambitions for Cutting Corporate Tax Rate. New York Times A17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Egger 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Stellwagen and Malenka 2006; Egger 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stellwagen and Malenka 2006)
Three or more authors: (Blekhman et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Abbreviation	Theor. Exp. Plant Physiol.
ISSN (online)	2197-0025
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