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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physiological and 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

[1]

D. Jones, DaedalusThe tense road, Nature 411 (2001) 758.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.-L. Wang, T.W. Lai, Optimization of Evans blue quantitation in limited rat tissue samples, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6588.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

O. Aurelio, D.H. Hall, O. Hobert, Immunoglobulin-domain proteins required for maintenance of ventral nerve cord organization, Science 295 (2002) 686–690.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.A. Venail, R.C. MacLean, T. Bouvier, M.A. Brockhurst, M.E. Hochberg, N. Mouquet, Diversity and productivity peak at intermediate dispersal rate in evolving metacommunities, Nature 452 (2008) 210–214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Camman, C. Fiore, L. Livolsi, P. Querro, Supply Chain Management and Business Performance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

B. Bouyssounouse, Embedded Systems Design: The ARTIST Roadmap for Research and Development, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Thorne, C. Griffiths, Smart, Smarter, Smartest: Redefining Our Cities, in: R.P. Dameri, C. Rosenthal-Sabroux (Eds.), Smart City: How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 89–99.

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 Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Learning To Drink Is Hard Work- Who’d Have Trunk It?, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/learning-drink-hard-work-who’d-have-trunk-it/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: Management of Interdependencies between Programs Supporting 2020 Census, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.M. Picchini, Neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus: Modulation of stem cell fate by experience, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2010.

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

[1]

D.A. Kelly, How to Get the Best Rate (and Avoid Fees), New York Times (2006) TR6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0885-5765
Scope	Plant Science Genetics