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

Montgomery J (2011) Chemistry. High-throughput discovery of new chemical reactions. Science 333:1387–1388

A journal article with 2 authors

Smit B, Maesen TLM (2008) Towards a molecular understanding of shape selectivity. Nature 451:671–678

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayor M, Lovis C, Santos NC (2014) Doppler spectroscopy as a path to the detection of Earth-like planets. Nature 513:328–335

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Some S, Xu Y, Kim Y, et al (2013) Highly sensitive and selective gas sensor using hydrophilic and hydrophobic graphenes. Sci Rep 3:1868

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hollin CR (2016) The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Potter PE (2005) Mud and Mudstones: Introduction and Overview. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ikelu C, Onyukwu OE (2016) Dynamics and Determinants of Poverty in Nigeria: Evidence from a Panel Survey. In: Heshmati A (ed) Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa: A Multi-faceted Economic Approach. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 89–116

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

Luntz S (2014) Cuckoos Use Mafia Tactics, And They Work. In: IFLScience. 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 (2006) Aviation Security: Management Challenges Remain for the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program. 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

Tengco MA (2017) Quality Home Care: Providing Personal Care and Homemaking Services for Seniors in the Community. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Lundberg GD (2016) The N.F.L.’s Collision With the Future. New York Times A27

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Smit and Maesen 2008; Montgomery 2011).

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

Two authors: (Smit and Maesen 2008)
Three or more authors: (Some et al. 2013)

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