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

Rosenfeld, D. 2006. Atmosphere. Aerosols, clouds, and climate. Science. 312:1323–1324

A journal article with 2 authors

Shi, C., and Murphy, C. T. 2014. Mating induces shrinking and death in Caenorhabditis mothers. Science. 343:536–540

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonifacio, P., Limongi, M., and Chieffi, A. 2003. Astrophysics: How did the metals in a giant star originate? Nature. 422:834

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Natsume, R., Eitoku, M., Akai, Y., Sano, N., Horikoshi, M., and Senda, T. 2007. Structure and function of the histone chaperone CIA/ASF1 complexed with histones H3 and H4. Nature. 446:338–341

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bamfield, P. 2006. Research and Development in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Lyons, A. C. 2012. Customer-Driven Supply Chains: From Glass Pipelines to Open Innovation Networks. A.E. Coronado Mondragon, F. Piller, and R. Poler, eds. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Hall, K. S. K. 2016. Multicultural Sensitivity in the Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction. Pages 25–29 in: Management of Sexual Dysfunction in Men and Women: An Interdisciplinary Approach, L.I. Lipshultz, A.W. Pastuszak, A.T. Goldstein, A. Giraldi, and M.A. Perelman, eds. Springer, New York, NY.

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

Luntz, S. 2014. Moon Dances With Planets. IFLScience. Available at: [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. 1995. Department of Education: Opportunities to Realize Savings. 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

Sanford, R. 2015. Framing Human Trafficking: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Articles from 2012 and 2013.

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

Sisario, B., and Ember, S. 2016. Facing the Music. New York Times. :B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosenfeld 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rosenfeld 2006; Shi and Murphy 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shi and Murphy 2014)
Three or more authors: (Natsume et al. 2007)

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