How to format your references using the Phytoparasitica citation style

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

Joiner, S. (2000). OPTICS: The Internet of Tomorrow. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5498), 1907–1908.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartek, J., & Lukas, J. (2006). Cell biology. Balancing life-or-death decisions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5797), 261–262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reber, M., Burrola, P., & Lemke, G. (2004). A relative signalling model for the formation of a topographic neural map. Nature, 431(7010), 847–853.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hessels, J. W. T., Ransom, S. M., Stairs, I. H., Freire, P. C. C., Kaspi, V. M., & Camilo, F. (2006). A radio pulsar spinning at 716 Hz. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769), 1901–1904.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Gorman, T. W. (2012). Adaptive Tests of Significance Using Permutations of Residuals with R and SAS®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ali, S. Z. (2007). Breast Cytopathology. (A. V. Parwani, Ed.) (Vol. 4). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Biscari, P., Saccomandi, G., Ruggeri, T., & Vianello, M. (2013). Geometria delle masse. In G. Saccomandi, T. Ruggeri, & M. Vianello (Eds.), Meccanica Razionale (pp. 75–94). Milano: Springer.

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 Phytoparasitica.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, June 4). Everything You Need To Know About The Legal High Ban. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/everything-you-need-know-about-legal-high-ban/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (1996). Education and Employment Issue Area Plan--Fiscal Years 1996-98 (No. IAP-96-19). 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

Maranhao, B. (2015). Efficient identification of disease causative mutations with next generation sequencing technologies (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF. (2010, February 27). Batman Beats Superman In the Marketplace. New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joiner 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bartek and Lukas 2006; Joiner 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bartek and Lukas 2006)
Three or more authors: (Hessels et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytoparasitica
Abbreviation	Phytoparasitica
ISSN (print)	0334-2123
ISSN (online)	1876-7184
Scope	Insect Science Plant Science