How to format your references using the New Zealand Plant Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Plant Protection. 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

Collins FS 2008. Retrospective: Victor A. McKusick (1921-2008). Science (New York, N.Y.) 321: 925.

A journal article with 2 authors

Velicogna I, Wahr J 2006. Measurements of time-variable gravity show mass loss in Antarctica. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 1754–1756.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong Z, Hoven CW, Rosenfield A 2005. Lessons from the past. Nature 433: 573–574.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mullighan CG, Zhang J, Kasper LH, Lerach S, Payne-Turner D, Phillips LA, Heatley SL, Holmfeldt L, Collins-Underwood JR, Ma J, Buetow KH, Pui C-H, Baker SD, Brindle PK, Downing JR 2011. CREBBP mutations in relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Nature 471: 235–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman SH 2014. ESD. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, United Kingdom.

An edited book

Schiele B, Dey AK, Gellersen H, Ruyter B de, Tscheligi M, Wichert R, Aarts E, Buchmann A (Eds.) 2007. Ambient Intelligence: European Conference, AmI 2007, Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. XV, 381 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Xiang Q, Yin R, Xu J, Deng X 2009. Modeling the Driving Forces of the Land Use and Land Cover Changes Along the Upper Yangtze River. In: Yin R ed. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. Pp. 69–84.

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 New Zealand Plant Protection.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J 2015. Mars One Torn To Shreds In MIT Debate. 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 2001. Loan Monitoring System: SBA Needs to Evaluate Use of Software. 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

Bornheimer ME 2010. The influence of leadership development programs on the community college leadership shortage: A case study. Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Cooper M 2017. An Orchestra Tuned to Thrive.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Velicogna & Wahr 2006, Collins 2008).

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

Two authors: (Velicogna & Wahr 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mullighan et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Plant Protection
Abbreviation	N. Z. Plant Prot.
ISSN (print)	1175-9003
ISSN (online)	1179-352X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Horticulture Insect Science