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

Pogue, B.W. (2014) Technology: ultrafast imaging takes on a new design. Nature, 516, 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammock, E.A.D. & Young, L.J. (2005) Microsatellite instability generates diversity in brain and sociobehavioral traits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308, 1630–1634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-Yehuda, S., Rudner, D.Z. & Losick, R. (2003) RacA, a bacterial protein that anchors chromosomes to the cell poles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299, 532–536.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Maida, Y., Yasukawa, M., Furuuchi, M., Lassmann, T., Possemato, R., Okamoto, N., et al. (2009) An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase formed by TERT and the RMRP RNA. Nature, 461, 230–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulinkovich, O.G. (2015) Cyclopropanes in Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Penta, M. (2008) Analisi di Rasch e questionari di misura: Applicazioni in medicina e scienze sociali. Arnould, C., Decruynaere, C., and Tesio, L. (Eds.). Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cong, J. & Luo, G. (2011) 3D Physical Design. In: Papanikolaou, A., Soudris, D., and Radojcic, R. (Eds.) Three Dimensional System Integration: IC Stacking Process and Design. Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 73–100.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017) NASA Releases Gorgeous Images Of Earth From New Weather Satellite. 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 (1982) Federal Government’s Use of International Data Corporation’s Subscription Services. 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

Fetterolf-Klein, S. (2015) Teacher leadership practices, supports and challenges in implementation of the common core high school math standards. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA, Pepperdine 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

Wasik, J.F. (2017) How to Get Financial Advice in Your Best Interest. New York Times, BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pogue, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hammock and Young, 2005; Pogue, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hammock and Young, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Maida et al., 2009)

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

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