How to format your references using the European Journal of Plant Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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	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

Rensberger, B. (2000). ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: The Nature of Evidence. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5476), 61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bae, B.-I., & Walsh, C. A. (2013). Neuroscience. What are mini-brains? Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6155), 200–201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghimire, A., Shafran, E., & Gerton, J. M. (2014). Using a sharp metal tip to control the polarization and direction of emission from a quantum dot. Scientific reports, 4, 6456.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Strom, R. G., Malhotra, R., Ito, T., Yoshida, F., & Kring, D. A. (2005). The origin of planetary impactors in the inner solar system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5742), 1847–1850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cofnas, A. (2011). Trading Binary Options. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lucanu, D. (Ed.). (2016). Rewriting Logic and Its Applications: 11th International Workshop, WRLA 2016, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-3, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9942). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Daun, H. (2006). Privatisation, Decentralisation and Governance in Education in the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, and Sweden. In J. Zajda (Ed.), Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education: The Role of the State (pp. 75–96). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 European Journal of Plant Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 7). The Science of Strawberries: Why do They Taste so Good? IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1994). USDA Restructuring: Refocus Info Share Program on Business Processes Rather Than Technology (No. AIMD-94-156). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sanute, P. J. (2012). What power? A mixed methods study of nonformal education teacher perceptions of social power (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2016, October 20). Review: ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’ Might Not Be Worth It. New York Times, p. C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rensberger 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bae and Walsh 2013; Rensberger 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bae and Walsh 2013)
Three or more authors: (Strom et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Plant Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0929-1873
ISSN (online)	1573-8469
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Horticulture Plant Science