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

Feldbaum, C. 2002. Biotechnology. Some history should be repeated. Science. 295:975

A journal article with 2 authors

Gomez Perdiguero, E., and Geissmann, F. 2014. Cancer immunology. Identifying the infiltrators. Science. 344:801–802

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank, F., Sonenberg, N., and Nagar, B. 2010. Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature. 465:818–822

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Canuto, M. A., Estrada-Belli, F., Garrison, T. G., Houston, S. D., Acuña, M. J., Kováč, M., Marken, D., Nondédéo, P., Auld-Thomas, L., Castanet, C., Chatelain, D., Chiriboga, C. R., Drápela, T., Lieskovský, T., Tokovinine, A., Velasquez, A., Fernández-Díaz, J. C., and Shrestha, R. 2018. Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala. Science. 361

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens, H. 2012. Applied Building Physics. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Comyn-Wattiau, I., Tanaka, K., Song, I.-Y., Yamamoto, S., and Saeki, M., eds. 2016. Conceptual Modeling: 35th International Conference, ER 2016, Gifu, Japan, November 14-17, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rahimian, J., Chen, J. C. T., Girvigian, M. R., Miller, M. J., and Rahimian, R. 2011. Frame-Based and Frameless Accuracy of Novalis® Radiosurgery. Pages 37–46 in: Shaped Beam Radiosurgery: State of the Art, A.A.F. De Salles, A. Gorgulho, N. Agazaryan, B. Slotman, M. Selch, A.J. Burwick, and R. Schulz, eds. 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

Fang, J. 2014. Microbes Living in Tiny Water Droplets Help Break Down Oil. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/microbes-living-tiny-water-droplets-help-break-down-oil/ [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. 1969. Federal Support for Research and Education: Costs and Benefits. 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

Nakano, A. M. 2012. Community college swirlers and the transfer function.

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

Kelly, C. 2012. Reshooting J. R., This Time on Home Territory. New York Times. :A22A

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feldbaum 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Feldbaum 2002; Gomez Perdiguero and Geissmann 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gomez Perdiguero and Geissmann 2014)
Three or more authors: (Canuto et al. 2018)

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