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

Beverley SM (2015) Parasitology: CRISPR for Cryptosporidium. Nature 523:413–414

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiang YC, Gao J (2014) Strain-induced photoconductivity in thin films of Co doped amorphous carbon. Sci Rep 4:6738

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson SC, Rabinovitch PS, Kaeberlein M (2013) mTOR is a key modulator of ageing and age-related disease. Nature 493:338–345

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Auslaender OM, Steinberg H, Yacoby A, et al (2005) Spin-charge separation and localization in one dimension. Science 308:88–92

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saint-Dizier P (2014) Musical Rhetoric. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Singh M, Singh RB, Hassan MI (eds) (2014) Climate Change and Biodiversity: Proceedings of IGU Rohtak Conference, Vol. 1. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Eadie MJ, Vajda F (2016) Commonly Used Newer Antiepileptic Drugs. In: Vajda F (ed) Antiepileptic Drugs and Pregnancy: A Guide for Prescribers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 67–85

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) Rosetta Spacecraft Targets Comet Landing Site. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-spacecraft-targets-comet-landing-site/. 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 (1978) Better Criteria Needed for Awarding Grants for School Desegregation. 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

Farrell BM (2010) Body composition changes and work-efficiency effects from diet modification and incorporation of an at-home exercise regimen. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Mueller B, Remnick N (2016) Pregnant Day Care Owner Is Found Dead in Her Bronx Home. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beverley 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jiang and Gao 2014; Beverley 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jiang and Gao 2014)
Three or more authors: (Auslaender et al. 2005)

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