How to format your references using the Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI). 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

Lang, T. 2011. Advancing global health research through digital technology and sharing data. Science. 331:714–717

A journal article with 2 authors

Hiiragi, T., and Solter, D. 2004. First cleavage plane of the mouse egg is not predetermined but defined by the topology of the two apposing pronuclei. Nature. 430:360–364

A journal article with 3 authors

Bockrath, C., Ballhaus, C., and Holzheid, A. 2004. Fractionation of the platinum-group elements during mantle melting. Science. 305:1951–1953

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, E. S., Zhang, K., Nicolas, E., Cam, H. P., Zofall, M., and Grewal, S. I. S. 2008. Cell cycle control of centromeric repeat transcription and heterochromatin assembly. Nature. 451:734–737

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alrifai, T. 2015. Islamic Finance and the New Financial System. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Larusson, J. A., and White, B., eds. 2014. Learning Analytics: From Research to Practice. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, H., Silva, E. A., and Wang, Q. 2015. The Foundation for Agent-Based Modelling: Empirical Evidence of Creative Industries’ Interactions with Urban Land Use in Nanjing. Pages 53–100 in: Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure: Agent-based Modelling of the Dynamics in Nanjing, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. E.A. Silva and Q. Wang, eds. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2016. Supercomputer Simulation Of Milky Way Solves Mystery Of Missing Dwarf Galaxies. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/supercomputer-simulation-milky-way-missing-dwarf-galaxies/ [Accessed October 30, 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. 1997. Commercial Passenger Vehicles: Safety Inspection of Commercial Buses and Vans Entering the United States From Mexico. 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

Mhatre, A. B. 2009. Zone-Clipper.

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

Wagner, J. 2017. Battered Mets Survive the Nationals. New York Times. :D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lang 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lang 2011; Hiiragi and Solter 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hiiragi and Solter 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Abbreviation	Mol. Plant. Microbe. Interact.
ISSN (print)	0894-0282
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Physiology General Medicine