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

Padma TV (2005) Rivalry and red tape. Nature 436:490–491

A journal article with 2 authors

Zeh JA, Zeh DW (2006) Outbred embryos rescue inbred half-siblings in mixed-paternity broods of live-bearing females. Nature 439:201–203

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavrentovich OD, Lazo I, Pishnyak OP (2010) Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal. Nature 467:947–950

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sekiyama A, Iwasaki T, Matsuda K, et al (2000) Probing bulk states of correlated electron systems by high-resolution resonance photoemission. Nature 403:396–398

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minuth WW, Strehl R, Schumacher K (2005) Tissue Engineering. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Fisher P (2016) Spring Persistence with Hibernate, 2nd ed. 2016. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Gay H, Pohar S (2011) Cancer of the Major Salivary Glands. In: Lu JJ, Brady LW (eds) Decision Making in Radiation Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 105–131

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

Davis J (2015) Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Part Of A Rat’s Brain. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-digitally-reconstruct-part-rats-brain/. 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 (1995) Earth Observing System: Concentration on Near-Term EOSDIS Development May Jeopardize Long-Term Success. 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

Prochorchik VL (2010) Increasing infant mental health awareness. 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

Saslow L (2007) Board Renewing Searches By Trained Dogs at School. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padma 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Padma 2005; Zeh and Zeh 2006).

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

Two authors: (Zeh and Zeh 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sekiyama et al. 2000)

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