How to format your references using the Molecular Plant Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Plant Pathology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Mitchinson, A. (2014) Climate science: City heat. Nature, 511, 163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hopkins, R. & Rausher, M.D. (2012) Pollinator-mediated selection on flower color allele drives reinforcement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335, 1090–1092.

A journal article with 3 authors

Farkas, I., Helbing, D. & Vicsek, T. (2002) Mexican waves in an excitable medium. Nature, 419, 131–132.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Saurin, A.J., Shao, Z., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P. & Kingston, R.E. (2001) A Drosophila Polycomb group complex includes Zeste and dTAFII proteins. Nature, 412, 655–660.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (1999) Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Richards, J. ed. (2010) Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World. first. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jesi, G.P., Montresor, A. & Babaoglu, O. (2006) Proximity-Aware Superpeer Overlay Topologies. In: Keller, A. and Martin-Flatin, J.-P. (Eds.) Self-Managed Networks, Systems, and Services: Second IEEE International Workshop, SelfMan 2006, Dublin, Ireland, June 16, 2006. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 43–57.

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 Pathology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017) This 22-Year-Old’s Idea Has Raised $31 Million To Clean Up Plastic In The Pacific. IFLScience.

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 (1973) Opportunities for Improving Management of Local Telephone Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Rajagopal, S. (2012) Assessing water management impacts of climate change for a semi-arid watershed in the southwestern US. Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona.

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

Walsh, M.W. (2012) Suffolk Cites Emergency In Finances. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mitchinson, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hopkins and Rausher, 2012; Mitchinson, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hopkins and Rausher, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Saurin et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	Mol. Plant Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1464-6722
ISSN (online)	1364-3703
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Soil Science Molecular Biology