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

Hla T (2005) Immunology. Dietary factors and immunological consequences. Science 309:1682–1683

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberson ED, Mucke L (2006) 100 years and counting: prospects for defeating Alzheimer’s disease. Science 314:781–784

A journal article with 3 authors

Wake H, Lee PR, Fields RD (2011) Control of local protein synthesis and initial events in myelination by action potentials. Science 333:1647–1651

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kajimura S, Seale P, Kubota K, et al (2009) Initiation of myoblast to brown fat switch by a PRDM16-C/EBP-beta transcriptional complex. Nature 460:1154–1158

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hooper J, Zalewski A, Watanabe E (2013) Advanced Charting Techniques for High Probability Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Esposito A, Campbell N, Vogel C, et al (eds) (2010) Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony: Second COST 2102 International Training School, Dublin, Ireland, March 23-27, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gyselinckx B, Hoof C, Donnay S (2006) Body Area Networks: The Ascent of Autonomous Wireless Microsystems. In: Mukherjee S, Aarts RM, Roovers R, et al. (eds) AmIware Hardware Technology Drivers of Ambient Intelligence. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 73–83

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

Andrew E (2014) Watch Expedition 42/43 Crew Launch Live! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-expedition-4243-crew-launch-live/. 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 (2007) Social Security Numbers: Federal Actions Could Further Decrease Availability in Public Records, though Other Vulnerabilities Remain. 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

Cuellar D (2011) Impact of boring insects on the reproductive success of Hesperoyucca whipplei (Our Lord’s candle). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Saslow L (2005) A Rock Club Closes After a Four-Year Run. New York Times 14LI9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hla 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hla 2005; Roberson and Mucke 2006).

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

Two authors: (Roberson and Mucke 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kajimura et al. 2009)

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