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

Willyard C (2015) Pharmacotherapy: Quest for the quitting pill. Nature 522:S53-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen D, Ma XL (2013) Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside tetragonal Al(2)Cu compound: slip system-dependent dynamics. Sci Rep 3:3157

A journal article with 3 authors

Elbelrhiti H, Claudin P, Andreotti B (2005) Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes. Nature 437:720–723

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chendrimada TP, Gregory RI, Kumaraswamy E, et al (2005) TRBP recruits the Dicer complex to Ago2 for microRNA processing and gene silencing. Nature 436:740–744

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boero R (2015) Behavioral Computational Social Science. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Munteanu L (2005) Introduction to Soliton Theory: Applications to Mechanics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Bain J (2010) Relativity and Quantum Field Theory. In: Petkov V (ed) Space, Time, and Spacetime: Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski’s Unification of Space and Time. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 129–146

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

Andrews R (2016) Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/free-will-may-be-more-illusion-we-previously-thought-claims-study/. 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 (2010) Campaign Finance Reform: Experiences of Two States That Offered Full Public Funding for Political Candidates. 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

Othmanawny G (2017) Soaked and Unsoaked Performance of Crushed Gravel and Limestone Aggregates. 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

Pilon M (2012) The Olympians’ Housemother. New York Times B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willyard 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Ma 2013; Willyard 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Ma 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chendrimada et al. 2005)

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