How to format your references using the Tree Physiology citation style

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

Stanley HE (2000) Freezing by heating. Nature 404:718–719.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jensen LJ, Bork P (2008) Biochemistry. Not comparable, but complementary. Science 322:56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roberts RB, Ser JR, Kocher TD (2009) Sexual conflict resolved by invasion of a novel sex determiner in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes. Science 326:998–1001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Salih A, Larkum A, Cox G, Kühl M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2000) Fluorescent pigments in corals are photoprotective. Nature 408:850–853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sericola B (2013) Markov Chains. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Cohen R (2014) GUI Design for Android Apps Wang T (ed). Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Duran A, Ferrer R, Klemm M, de Supinski BR, Ayguadé E (2010) A Proposal for User-Defined Reductions in OpenMP. In: Sato M, Hanawa T, Müller MS, Chapman BM, Supinski BR de (eds) Beyond Loop Level Parallelism in OpenMP: Accelerators, Tasking and More: 6th Internationan Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2010, Tsukuba, Japan, June 14-16, 2010 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–55.

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 Tree Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Method Could Help Estimate Time of Death for a Ten-Day-Old Corpse. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-method-could-help-estimate-time-death-ten-day-old-corpse/ (30 October 2018, date last accessed ).

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 (2015) Results-Oriented Management: OPM Needs to Do More to Ensure Meaningful Distinctions Are Made in SES Ratings and Performance Awards. 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

Baugh JB (2008) Deregulation and management strategies: A case study of Georgia System Operations Corporation. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN

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

Vecsey G (2010) American Soccer Is Hitting the Right Notes. New York Times:B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stanley 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Stanley 2000, Jensen and Bork 2008).

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

Two authors: (Jensen and Bork 2008)
Three or more authors: (Salih et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tree Physiology
Abbreviation	Tree Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0829-318X
ISSN (online)	1758-4469
Scope	Plant Science Physiology