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

Adam D. 2000. Industrial solvents: clean and green...but are they mean? Nature. 407(6807):938–40

A journal article with 2 authors

Seeber L, Armbruster JG. 2000. Earthquakes as beacons of stress change. Nature. 407(6800):69–72

A journal article with 3 authors

Akbarzadeh A, Qiu C-W, Danner AJ. 2013. Exploiting design freedom in biaxial dielectrics to enable spatially overlapping optical instruments. Sci. Rep. 3:2055

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wagner JR, Brunzelle JS, Forest KT, Vierstra RD. 2005. A light-sensing knot revealed by the structure of the chromophore-binding domain of phytochrome. Nature. 438(7066):325–31

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharma YC. 2011. A Guide to the Economic Removal of Metals from Aqueous Solutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hammond T, Valentine S, Adler A, eds. 2016. Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink: The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XXII, 385 p. 174 illus., 159 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Braniš M. 2010. Personal Exposure Measurements. In Human Exposure to Pollutants via Dermal Absorption and Inhalation, ed M Lazaridis, I Colbeck, pp. 97–141. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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

Fang J. 2014. Hubble Captures Dancing Auroras on Saturn. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-captures-dancing-auroras-saturn/

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. Serious Shortcomings in FAA’s Training Program Must Be Remedied. T-RCED-90-86, 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

Woerner LC. 2010. Complicated grief: A case study of pathological bereavement. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Northcentral 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

de la MERCED MJ, Steel E. 2017. 21st Century Fox and Blackstone May Be Devising a Joint Offer for Tribune Media. New York Times, May 1, p. B3

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 (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (2, 5, 6, 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