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

Rabeharisoa V. 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Socializing genetic diseases. Science. 331(6020):1026–1027.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hudson PJ, Bjørnstad ON. 2003. Ecology. Vole stranglers and lemming cycles. Science. 302(5646):797–798.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li de la Sierra-Gallay I, Pellegrini O, Condon C. 2005. Structural basis for substrate binding, cleavage and allostery in the tRNA maturase RNase Z. Nature. 433(7026):657–661.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Choe J, Lin S, Zhang W, Liu Q, Wang L, Ramirez-Moya J, Du P, Kim W, Tang S, Sliz P, et al. 2018. mRNA circularization by METTL3-eIF3h enhances translation and promotes oncogenesis. Nature. 561(7724):556–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang KQT. 2015. Wireless Communications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Farooqui AA. 2007. Glycerophospholipids in the Brain: Phospholipases A2 in Neurological Disorders. Horrocks LA, editor. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Deak T, Okrainets A, Doremus-Fitzwater TL. 2013. Mechanisms of Stress-Dependent Neuroinflammation and Their Implications for Understanding Consequences of Alcohol Exposure. In: Cui C, Grandison L, Noronha A, editors. Neural-Immune Interactions in Brain Function and Alcohol Related Disorders. Boston, MA: Springer US; p. 133–166.

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. Climate Change Threatens Range of Bald Eagles and Half of American Bird Species. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/climate-change-threatens-range-bald-eagles-and-half-american-bird-species/

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. 1991. Tax System Modernization: Issues Facing IRS. 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

Dovale MJ. 2013. Postwar japan’s hybrid modernity of in-betweenness: Historical, literary, and social perspectives [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

McKINLEY JC Jr. 2017. 2nd Etan Patz Jury Knew Members of First Jury Were Watching, Defense Says. New York Times.:A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rabeharisoa 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hudson and Bjørnstad 2003; Rabeharisoa 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hudson and Bjørnstad 2003)
Three or more authors: (Choe et al. 2018)

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