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

Nori F 2009. Physics. Quantum football. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 689–690.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hunter CA, Mayers PC 2001. Knot tied around an octahedral metal centre. Nature 411: 763.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hare TA, Camerer CF, Rangel A 2009. Self-control in decision-making involves modulation of the vmPFC valuation system. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 646–648.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thyme SB, Jarjour J, Takeuchi R, Havranek JJ, Ashworth J, Scharenberg AM, Stoddard BL, Baker D 2009. Exploitation of binding energy for catalysis and design. Nature 461: 1300–1304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storey IC, Allan A 2008. A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Taourel P (Ed.) 2011. CT of the Acute Abdomen. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. IX, 473 p. 400 illus., 200 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Dang Q-V, Nielsen I, Steger-Jensen K 2012. Mathematical Formulation for Mobile Robot Scheduling Problem in a Manufacturing Cell. In: Frick J, In: Laugen BT ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Pp. 37–44.

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

Andrew E 2014. Lead Pollution Got To The South Pole Before We Did. 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 1988. The Management and Operation of FCC’s Public Reference Rooms. 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

Domina NV 2009. Gender and culture influences on leadership perceptions. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Koblin J 2017. FX Plans a Commercial-Free Service With Comcast.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nori 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hunter & Mayers 2001, Nori 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hunter & Mayers 2001)
Three or more authors: (Thyme et al. 2009)

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