How to format your references using the Arthropod-Plant Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Whiten A (2005) The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans. Nature 437:52–55

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheehan MJ, Tibbetts EA (2011) Specialized face learning is associated with individual recognition in paper wasps. Science 334:1272–1275

A journal article with 3 authors

Acar M, Becskei A, van Oudenaarden A (2005) Enhancement of cellular memory by reducing stochastic transitions. Nature 435:228–232

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kang L, Lin Z, Qin J, Chen C (2013) Two novel nonlinear optical carbonates in the deep-ultraviolet region: KBeCO3F and RbAlCO3F2. Sci Rep 3:1366

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camman C, Fiore C, Livolsi L, Querro P (2017) Supply Chain Management and Business Performance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Alaca A, Alaca Ş, Williams KS (eds) (2015) Advances in the Theory of Numbers: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference of the Canadian Number Theory Association, 1st ed. 2015. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Gil-Perotín S, García-Verdugo JM, Álvarez-Buylla A (2009) Adult Neurogenesis Under Pathological Stimulation: Ischemia. In: Alvarez-Buylla A, Gil-Perotín S (eds) Identification and Characterization of Neural Progenitor Cells in the Adult Mammalian Brain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–75

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 Arthropod-Plant Interactions.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Risk Of Cancer Increases With Height. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/risk-cancer-increases-height/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1976) Rotation Policies and Practices Have Been Changed for the Better--But Room for Improvement Remains. 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

Foley JD (2012) Comparing Kac-Moody groups over the complex numbers and fields of positive characteristic via homotopy theory. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Ryerson J (2016) University Presses. New York Times BR35

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Whiten 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Whiten 2005; Sheehan and Tibbetts 2011).

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

Two authors: (Sheehan and Tibbetts 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Abbreviation	Arthropod Plant Interact.
ISSN (print)	1872-8855
ISSN (online)	1872-8847
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science Ecology