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

Taylor G (2014) Astrophysics: A tight duo in a trio of black holes. Nature 511:35–37

A journal article with 2 authors

Marraffini LA, Sontheimer EJ (2010) Self versus non-self discrimination during CRISPR RNA-directed immunity. Nature 463:568–571

A journal article with 3 authors

Nandy D, Muñoz-Jaramillo A, Martens PCH (2011) The unusual minimum of sunspot cycle 23 caused by meridional plasma flow variations. Nature 471:80–82

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brand A, Behrend O, Marquardt T, et al (2002) Precise inhibition is essential for microsecond interaural time difference coding. Nature 417:543–547

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reschetilowski W (2002) Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Ben Dhia S, Ramdani M, Sicard E (eds) (2006) Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits: Techniques for low emission and susceptibility. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Lemmerich F, Atzmueller M (2012) Describing Locations Using Tags and Images: Explorative Pattern Mining in Social Media. In: Atzmueller M, Chin A, Helic D, Hotho A (eds) Modeling and Mining Ubiquitous Social Media: International Workshops MSM 2011, Boston, MA, USA, October 9, 2011, and MUSE 2011, Athens, Greece, September 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–96

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) Stunning Photos Of Dried Whisky Under A Microscope. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/stunning-photos-dried-whisky/. 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 (1983) Poor Design and Management Hamper Army’s Basic Skills Education Program. 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

Teague HL (2017) A Mixed Methods Study of Online Course Facilitators’ Perceptions of Mobile Technology, Design, and TPaCK Affordances. 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

Feeney K (2011) Glorifying the Chickpea. New York Times NJ9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Marraffini and Sontheimer 2010; Taylor 2014).

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

Two authors: (Marraffini and Sontheimer 2010)
Three or more authors: (Brand 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