How to format your references using the Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection. 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

Ball P. 2015. Chemistry: Why synthesize? Nature. 528(7582):327–329.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruths J, Ruths D. 2014. Control profiles of complex networks. Science. 343(6177):1373–1376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weber W, Riesen S, Siegmann HC. 2001. Magnetization precession by hot spin injection. Science. 291(5506):1015–1018.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Kagansky A, Folco HD, Almeida R, Pidoux AL, Boukaba A, Simmer F, Urano T, Hamilton GL, Allshire RC. 2009. Synthetic heterochromatin bypasses RNAi and centromeric repeats to establish functional centromeres. Science. 324(5935):1716–1719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins BR. 2009. Fundraising Law Made Easy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Geunes J, Pardalos PM, Romeijn HE, editors. 2005. Supply Chain Management: Models, Applications, and Research Directions. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Guex J, Galster F, Hammer Ø. 2016. The UA Method and the UAgraph Program. In: Galster F, Hammer Ø, editors. Discrete Biochronological Time Scales. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 27–50.

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 Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. From Beyonce The Fly To Darth Vader The Beetle, Naming Species Can Help Save Them. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beyonce-fly-darth-vader-beetle-naming-species-can-help-save-them/

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. 1981. Automatic Data Processing Problems at the Social Security Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ding H. 2012. Mode of Action for Hexavalent Chromium Carcinogenicity in Drinking Water [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Norton MB. 2012. Woman of the World. New York Times.:BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ruths and Ruths 2014; Ball 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ruths and Ruths 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kagansky et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection
Abbreviation	Arch. Phytopathol. Pflanzenschutz
ISSN (print)	0323-5408
ISSN (online)	1477-2906
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science