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

Delaney P (2000) Palaeoceanography. Nutrients in the glacial balance. Nature 405:288–9, 291

A journal article with 2 authors

Gunanathan C, Milstein D (2013) Applications of acceptorless dehydrogenation and related transformations in chemical synthesis. Science 341:1229712

A journal article with 3 authors

Lönnstedt OM, McCormick MI, Chivers DP (2013) Predator-induced changes in the growth of eyes and false eyespots. Sci Rep 3:2259

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhu J, Shendure J, Mitra RD, Church GM (2003) Single molecule profiling of alternative pre-mRNA splicing. Science 301:836–838

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bruen GO (2015) WHOIS Running the Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bessis N, Dobre C (eds) (2014) Big Data and Internet of Things: A Roadmap for Smart Environments. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cantz T, Sharma AD, Manns MP, Ott M (2016) Liver. In: Steinhoff G (ed) Regenerative Medicine - from Protocol to Patient: 5. Regenerative Therapies II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 145–177

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

Luntz S (2014) Space Travel Makes Cherry Trees Bloom Years Early. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/space-travel-makes-cherry-trees-bloom-years-early/. 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 (1988) NATO-Warsaw Pact: Conventional Force Balance--Papers for U.S. and Soviet Perspectives Workshops. 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

Yackel RJ (2010) Recruitment and retention of nurses in long -term care within the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Loewenstein G, Ubel P (2010) Economics Behaving Badly. New York Times A31

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Delaney 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Delaney 2000; Gunanathan and Milstein 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gunanathan and Milstein 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al. 2003)

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