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

Patten, Lord. 2006. Europe pays the price for spending less. Nature. 441:691–693

A journal article with 2 authors

Culjkovic-Kraljacic, B., and Borden, K. L. B. 2010. Cell biology. Puzzled by PML. Science. 330:1183–1184

A journal article with 3 authors

Blin, A., Cissé, I., and Bockelmann, U. 2014. Electronic hybridization detection in microarray format and DNA genotyping. Sci. Rep. 4:4194

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Walker, L. M., Huber, M., Doores, K. J., Falkowska, E., Pejchal, R., Julien, J.-P., Wang, S.-K., Ramos, A., Chan-Hui, P.-Y., Moyle, M., Mitcham, J. L., Hammond, P. W., Olsen, O. A., Phung, P., Fling, S., Wong, C.-H., Phogat, S., Wrin, T., Simek, M. D., Protocol G Principal Investigators, Koff, W. C., Wilson, I. A., Burton, D. R., and Poignard, P. 2011. Broad neutralization coverage of HIV by multiple highly potent antibodies. Nature. 477:466–470

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bhaduri, S., and Mukesh, D. 2014. Homogeneous Catalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ball, J. A., Bolotnikov, V., Rodman, L., Spitkovsky, I. M., and Helton, J. W., eds. 2010. Topics in Operator Theory: Volume 2: Systems and Mathematical Physics Proceedings of the XIXth International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications, College of William and Mary, 2008. Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, X.-J., Hökfelt, T., and Wiesenfeld-Hallin, Z. 2010. Galanin and Spinal Pain Mechanisms: Past, Present, and Future. Pages 39–50 in: Galanin, Experientia Supplementum. T. Hökfelt, ed. Springer, Basel.

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. 2015. A New Parasite Is Infecting Tadpoles Across Three Continents. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-parasite-infecting-tadpoles-across-three-continents/ [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. 1991. Job Training Partnership Act: Racial and Gender Disparities in Services. 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

Allen, M. W. 2017. Popular Culture and War in the Vietnam Era.

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

Biersdorfer, J. D., and Couturier, K. 2017. Treasure Your Photos and Music? A Guide to Backing Up Critical Data. New York Times. :B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patten 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Patten 2006; Culjkovic-Kraljacic and Borden 2010).

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

Two authors: (Culjkovic-Kraljacic and Borden 2010)
Three or more authors: (Walker et al. 2011)

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

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