How to format your references using the Annual Review of Phytopathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Phytopathology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Trainor L. 2008. Science & music: the neural roots of music. Nature. 453(7195):598–99

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerde E, Marder M. 2001. Friction and fracture. Nature. 413(6853):285–88

A journal article with 3 authors

Callier V, Clack JA, Ahlberg PE. 2009. Contrasting developmental trajectories in the earliest known tetrapod forelimbs. Science. 324(5925):364–67

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lin D, Pan J, Huang H, Chen G, Qiu S, et al. 2014. Label-free blood plasma test based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering for tumor stages detection in nasopharyngeal cancer. Sci. Rep. 4:4751

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruske W. 1971. Verlag Chemie 1921-1971. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Tavernarakis N, ed. 2010. Protein Metabolism and Homeostasis in Aging, Vol. 694. Boston, MA: Springer US. XXII, 248 p. 34 illus., 4 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Hosseinimehr SJ, Mahmoudzadeh A, Ahmadi A, Mohamadifar S, Akhlaghpoor S. 2009. Radioprotective Effects of Hesperidin against Genotoxicity Induced by Gamma Irradiation in Human Lymphocytes. In World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/3 Radiation Protection and Dosimetry, Biological Effects of Radiation, ed O Dössel, WC Schlegel, pp. 13–13. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Phytopathology.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. A Step By Step Guide On How To Remove Your Online Presence. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-remove-your-online-presence/

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. 1977. Automated Systems: The Auditor’s Role. 102820, 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

Shamsai M. 2006. Prefabricated Cage System for Reinforcing Concrete Members. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Ohio State University

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. 2012. What He Won’t Say, the White Flag Will. New York Times, Aug. 25, p. D2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (3, 4).
This sentence cites four references (4, 5, 7, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Phytopathology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Phytopathol.
ISSN (print)	0066-4286
ISSN (online)	1545-2107
Scope	Plant Science