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

Macilwain C (2015) Change the cancer conversation. Nature 520:7

A journal article with 2 authors

Boguski MS, McIntosh MW (2003) Biomedical informatics for proteomics. Nature 422:233–237

A journal article with 3 authors

Șenbabaoğlu Y, Michailidis G, Li JZ (2014) Critical limitations of consensus clustering in class discovery. Sci Rep 4:6207

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

Yu J, Tao D (2013) Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Narasimhan P, Triantafillou P (eds) (2012) Middleware 2012: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Middleware Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 3-7, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Collinson M, Pym D, Taylor B (2012) A Framework for Modelling Security Architectures in Services Ecosystems. In: Paoli FD, Pimentel E, Zavattaro G (eds) Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: First European Conference, ESOCC 2012, Bertinoro, Italy, September 19-21, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 64–79

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

Fang J (2015) In Peru, Guinea Pig Roasts May Have Led to the Emergence of a Deadly Parasite. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/guinea-pig-roasts-peru-may-have-led-emergence-deadly-parasite/. 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) Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Batistick SA (2015) Reclaiming One’s Gold: Imagining the Inner Child Through the Art of Therapeutic Fairy Tale Writing. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Kelly S (2000) Nothing Lasts Forever. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Boguski and McIntosh 2003; Macilwain 2015).

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

Two authors: (Boguski and McIntosh 2003)
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

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