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

Eisner, J. A. 2007. Water vapour and hydrogen in the terrestrial-planet-forming region of a protoplanetary disk. Nature. 447:562–564

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlapbach, L., and Züttel, A. 2001. Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications. Nature. 414:353–358

A journal article with 3 authors

Rougier, G. W., Forasiepi, A. M., and Martinelli, A. G. 2005. Comment on “Independent origins of middle ear bones in monotremes and therians” (II). Science. 309:1492; author reply 1492

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jin, C., Wang, G., Le, A.-T., and Lin, C. D. 2014. Route to optimal generation of soft X-ray high harmonics with synthesized two-color laser pulses. Sci. Rep. 4:7067

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Swatton, P. J. 2010. Principles of Flight for Pilots. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Azcue, P. 2014. Stochastic Optimization in Insurance: A Dynamic Programming Approach. N. Muler, ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, W., Zhao, H., Jin, Z., and Mei, H. 2011. Towards a More Fundamental Explanation of Constraints in Feature Models: A Requirement-Oriented Approach. Pages 36–51 in: Top Productivity through Software Reuse: 12th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2011, Pohang, South Korea, June 13-17, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. K. Schmid, ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Andrew, E. 2015. Beautiful Biofluorescent Eels Discovered. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beautiful-biofluorescent-eels-discovered/ [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. 2000. Telecommunications: Update on State-Level Cramming Complaints and Enforcement Actions. 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

McClurg, A. D. 2013. A phenomenological study of Baby Boomer retirement— Expectations, results, and implications.

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

Pilon, M. 2014. A Ban on Coed Contact Sports. New York Times. :B19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisner 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Eisner 2007; Schlapbach and Züttel 2001).

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

Two authors: (Schlapbach and Züttel 2001)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al. 2014)

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