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

Ohman M (2012) Biochemistry. A cold editor makes the adaptation. Science 335:805–806

A journal article with 2 authors

Vlaminck V, Bailleul M (2008) Current-induced spin-wave Doppler shift. Science 322:410–413

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahlberg PE, Clack JA, Blom H (2005) The axial skeleton of the Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega. Nature 437:137–140

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kuruvilla FG, Shamji AF, Sternson SM, et al (2002) Dissecting glucose signalling with diversity-oriented synthesis and small-molecule microarrays. Nature 416:653–657

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCallum H (2008) Population Parameters: Estimation for Ecological Models. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Marciniec B (ed) (2009) Hydrosilylation: A Comprehensive Review on Recent Advances. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Krause J, Langhirt C, Sterff A, et al (2010) Data Access. In: Langhirt C, Sterff A, Pehlke B, Döring M (eds) SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 165–254

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

Andrew E (2014) Printable Solar Cells One Step Closer To Reaching The Shelves. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/printable-solar-cells-one-step-closer-reaching-shelves/. 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 (2013) Army Networks: Size and Scope of Modernization Investment Merit Increased Oversight. 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

Che H (2009) Non-linear development of streaming instabilities in magnetic reconnection with a strong guide field. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Zahler P, Schaller G (2014) Saving More Than Just Snow Leopards. New York Times SR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ohman 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Vlaminck and Bailleul 2008; Ohman 2012).

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

Two authors: (Vlaminck and Bailleul 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kuruvilla et al. 2002)

About the journal

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