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

Nieto, M.A. (2013) Epithelial plasticity: a common theme in embryonic and cancer cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342, 1234850.

A journal article with 2 authors

Embley, T.M. & Martin, W. (2006) Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges. Nature, 440, 623–630.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Y., Yun, W. & Jacobsen, C. (2003) Achromatic Fresnel optics for wideband extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray imaging. Nature, 424, 50–53.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Xie, W., Guo, L., Jiao, X., Yang, N., Yang, X., Wu, Q., et al. (2014) Transcriptomic dissection of sexual differences in Bemisia tabaci, an invasive agricultural pest worldwide. Scientific reports, 4, 4088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, G. & Broniatowski, M. (2017) Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Boone, C.G. & Fragkias, M. eds. (2013) Urbanization and Sustainability: Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, S.E., Chaikin, P.M. & Naughton, M.J. (2008) La Tour des Sels de Bechgaard. In: Lebed, A. (Ed.) The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors Springer Series in Materials Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 49–87.

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

Andrews, R. (2016) Researchers Have Found The First Ever Fossilized Dinosaur Brain. 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 (1990) Transportation Infrastructure: A Comparison of Federal and State Highway Laws. 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

Brown, J.T. (2010) Evaluation of a social science simulation by uncertainty analysis and comparison. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC, George Washington University.

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

Higgins, A. (2013) $24 Million Insurance Paid on Stolen Art. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nieto, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Embley and Martin, 2006; Nieto, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Embley and Martin, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al., 2014)

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