How to format your references using the Australasian Plant Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Plant Pathology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Altman E (2007) Physics. Critical Insights. Science 315:1504–1505

A journal article with 2 authors

Goedert M, Spillantini MG (2006) A century of Alzheimer’s disease. Science 314:777–781

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn Y-Y, Bagrow JP, Lehmann S (2010) Link communities reveal multiscale complexity in networks. Nature 466:761–764

A journal article with 5 or more authors

De Smaele E, Zazzeroni F, Papa S, et al (2001) Induction of gadd45beta by NF-kappaB downregulates pro-apoptotic JNK signalling. Nature 414:308–313

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nasr VG, DiNardo JA (2017) The Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Couture A (2008) Gastrointestinal Tract Sonography in Fetuses and Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wang J, Liu Z, Wu Y (2014) Conclusion. In: Liu Z, Wu Y (eds) Human Action Recognition with Depth Cameras. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–58

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 Pathology.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) Watch Monster Magnetic Putty Devour Metal Objects. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-monster-magnetic-putty-devour-metal-objects/. 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 (1992) Aviation Research: Information on Funding, Staffing, and Timing of FAA’s Research Projects. 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

Orozco M (2015) Music preference and its effects on emotion processes and identity development in young adult females: An examination of the “emo” subculture. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Murphy MJO (2015) Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times C27

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Altman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goedert and Spillantini 2006; Altman 2007).

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

Two authors: (Goedert and Spillantini 2006)
Three or more authors: (De Smaele et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australasian Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	Australas. Plant Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0815-3191
ISSN (online)	1448-6032
Scope	Plant Science