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]

C. de Lange, Diagnosis: Waiting for results, Nature. 502 (2013) S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Kim, S. Kwon, Materials science. Water-responsive polymer composites on the move, Science. 339 (2013) 150–151.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Niemeier, H. Gombachika, R. Richards-Kortum, How to transform the practice of engineering to meet global health needs, Science. 345 (2014) 1287–1290.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V.R. Stamenkovic, B. Fowler, B.S. Mun, G. Wang, P.N. Ross, C.A. Lucas, N.M. Marković, Improved oxygen reduction activity on Pt3Ni(111) via increased surface site availability, Science. 315 (2007) 493–497.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Bernström, Valuation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

T. Skersys, R. Butleris, R. Butkiene, eds., Information and Software Technologies: 19th International Conference, ICIST 2013, Kaunas, Lithuania, October 2013. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Espina, T. Falck, O. Mülhens, Network Topologies, Communication Protocols, and Standards, in: G.-Z. Yang (Ed.), Body Sensor Networks, Springer, London, 2006: pp. 145–182.

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]

D. Andrew, How To Make A Cloud At Home, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Social Security: Measure of Telephone Service Accuracy Can Be Improved, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.J. Kalafut, Proactive cyberfraud detection through infrastructure analysis, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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]

S. Hodara, A Westchester Town With Acres of Open Land, New York Times. (2017) RE8.

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