How to format your references using the Australasian Plant Disease Notes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Plant Disease Notes. 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

Leovy C (2001) Weather and climate on Mars. Nature 412:245–249

A journal article with 2 authors

Joly P-B, Rip A (2007) A timely harvest. Nature 450:174

A journal article with 3 authors

Baer B, Armitage SAO, Boomsma JJ (2006) Sperm storage induces an immunity cost in ants. Nature 441:872–875

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tauriello DVF, Palomo-Ponce S, Stork D, et al (2018) TGFβ drives immune evasion in genetically reconstituted colon cancer metastasis. Nature 554:538–543

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinsen U (2017) Kostenrechnung in der Bauwirtschaft. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Wang FL, Deng H, Gao Y, Lei J (eds) (2010) Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: International Conference, AICI 2010, Sanya, China, October 23-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Guo T, Liu F, Wu C, et al (2014) On $(k, n) ( k , n ) Visual Cryptography Scheme with t$ t Essential Parties. In: Padró C (ed) Information Theoretic Security: 7th International Conference, ICITS 2013, Singapore, November 28-30, 2013, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 56–68

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 Australasian Plant Disease Notes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Bloated Whale Carcass Threatens Small Canadian Town. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bloated-whale-carcass-threatens-small-canadian-town/. 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 (1996) Job Corps: Comparison of Federal Program With State Youth Training Initiatives. 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

Berezin S (2009) Catechols as membrane anion transporters. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Cook L, Olsen PR (2009) It Started at the Gas Pump. New York Times BU9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leovy 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Leovy 2001; Joly and Rip 2007).

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

Two authors: (Joly and Rip 2007)
Three or more authors: (Tauriello et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australasian Plant Disease Notes
Abbreviation	Australas. Plant Dis. Notes
ISSN (online)	1833-928X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science