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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of General 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 PL (2007) Rules of engagement. Nature 450:163–164

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng CL, Novales Flamarique I (2004) Opsin expression: new mechanism for modulating colour vision. Nature 428:279

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang C-W, Ka S-M, Chen A (2014) Robust image registration of biological microscopic images. Sci Rep 4:6050

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yoshida K, Toyoura K, Matsunaga K, et al (2013) Atomic sites and stability of Cs+ captured within zeolitic nanocavities. Sci Rep 3:2457

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster MC (2005) LC/MS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Huang Y (2014) Feature Coding for Image Representation and Recognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Libkin L (2005) Logics for Unranked Trees: An Overview. In: Caires L, Italiano GF, Monteiro L, et al. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming: 32nd International Colloquium, ICALP 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-15, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–50

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 Journal of General Plant Pathology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) Brain Activity Seen In Patient Ten Minutes After Death. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-activity-seen-in-patients-ten-minutes-after-death/. 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 (2000) Space Station: Prime Contract Changes. 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

Weygandt A (2017) Extension of Elementary Functions to Zeon Algebras. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Rothenberg B (2017) No. 1, but Not at the Top of Their Games. New York Times B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cheng and Novales Flamarique 2004; Taylor 2007).

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

Two authors: (Cheng and Novales Flamarique 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yoshida et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of General Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	J. Gen. Plant Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1345-2630
ISSN (online)	1610-739X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science