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

Kerwin L (2002) Obituary: Franco Rasetti (1901-2001). Nature 415:597

A journal article with 2 authors

Varmus H, Harlow E (2012) Science funding: Provocative questions in cancer research. Nature 481:436–437

A journal article with 3 authors

Harker DE, Woodward CE, Wooden DH (2005) The dust grains from 9P/Tempel 1 before and after the encounter with Deep Impact. Science 310:278–280

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Baena-González E, Rolland F, Thevelein JM, Sheen J (2007) A central integrator of transcription networks in plant stress and energy signalling. Nature 448:938–942

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fortey RA, Bruton DL (2013) Lower Ordovician Trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen. The Lethaia Foundation, Norway

An edited book

Courneya KS, Friedenreich CM (eds) (2011) Physical Activity and Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Krebs LU (2012) Sexual Health During Cancer Treatment. In: Quinn GP, Vadaparampil ST (eds) Reproductive Health and Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–76

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

Hale T (2015) What Caused These Awesome Wave-Like Clouds In Colorado? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-caused-these-awesome-wavey-clouds-colorado/. 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 (2009) Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role. 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

Harper NR (2017) The Relationship between Worry Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and True Memory, False Memory, and Metamemory. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Sweeney-James KA (2017) Remembering Nana. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerwin 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kerwin 2002; Varmus and Harlow 2012).

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

Two authors: (Varmus and Harlow 2012)
Three or more authors: (Baena-González et al. 2007)

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