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

Colquhoun, D. (2007). Science degrees without the science. Nature, 446(7134), 373–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bennett, C. H., & DiVincenzo, D. P. (2000). Quantum information and computation. Nature, 404(6775), 247–255.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sadqi, M., Fushman, D., & Muñoz, V. (2006). Atom-by-atom analysis of global downhill protein folding. Nature, 442(7100), 317–321.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nakanishi-Matsui, M., Zheng, Y. W., Sulciner, D. J., Weiss, E. J., Ludeman, M. J., & Coughlin, S. R. (2000). PAR3 is a cofactor for PAR4 activation by thrombin. Nature, 404(6778), 609–613.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lamperti, J. W. (1996). Probability: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lin, C. Y.-Y. (2016). The Impact of Societal and Social Innovation: A Case-Based Approach. (J. Chen, Ed.). Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Klein, N., Hurwitz, I., & Durvasula, R. (2013). Chagas Disease: Global Epidemiology and Evolving Methods for Control. In V. S. H. Rao & R. Durvasula (Eds.), Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases: Volume 1: Vector-Borne Diseases (pp. 139–167). New York, NY: Springer.

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. (2016, May 5). Why Sex Robots Are Ancient History. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-sex-robots-are-ancient-history/. 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. (2009). Telecommunications: Broadband Deployment Plan Should Include Performance Goals and Measures to Guide Federal Investment (No. GAO-09-494). 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

Castaneda Martinez, N. E. (2013). Implementation of the Parent Partner Project to improve reunification rates in Sonoma County: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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, D. (2003, January 26). The Minnow Found Again. New York Times, p. 77.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Colquhoun 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bennett and DiVincenzo 2000; Colquhoun 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bennett and DiVincenzo 2000)
Three or more authors: (Nakanishi-Matsui et al. 2000)

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