How to format your references using the Plant Disease citation style

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

Southwell, K. 2008. Quantum coherence. Nature 453:1003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grewal, S. I. S., and Elgin, S. C. R. 2007. Transcription and RNA interference in the formation of heterochromatin. Nature 447:399–406.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kingon, A. I., Maria, J. P., and Streiffer, S. K. 2000. Alternative dielectrics to silicon dioxide for memory and logic devices. Nature 406:1032–1038.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Patolsky, F., Timko, B. P., Yu, G., Fang, Y., Greytak, A. B., Zheng, G., and Lieber, C. M. 2006. Detection, stimulation, and inhibition of neuronal signals with high-density nanowire transistor arrays. Science 313:1100–1104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthou, P., Baudoin, C., Gayraud, T., and Gineste, M. 2015. Satellite and Terrestrial Hybrid Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ayache, N., Ourselin, S., and Maeder, A., eds. 2007. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2007: 10th International Conference, Brisbane, Australia, October 29 - November 2, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kawasaki, T., and Motoyoshi, Y. 2006. Experimental Constraints on the Decompressional P-T Paths of Rundvågshetta Granulites, Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica. In Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences, eds. Dieter Karl Fütterer, Detlef Damaske, Georg Kleinschmidt, Hubert Miller, and Franz Tessensohn. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 23–36.

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 Plant Disease.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Mars Is The Next Step For Humanity – We Must Take It. IFLScience. (accessed 30 Oct 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. 1988. DOD’s Risk Assessment and Safeguards Management of Chemical and Biological Warfare Research and Development Facilities. 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

Joseph, O. W. 2009. A study of the effectiveness of mentor roles in a rural school district. .

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

Feeney, K. 2010. Charleston Chews And Sugar Babies: Fistfuls of Nostalgia. New York Times NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Southwell 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Grewal and Elgin 2007; Southwell 2008).

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

Two authors: (Grewal and Elgin 2007)
Three or more authors: (Patolsky et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Disease
Abbreviation	Plant Dis.
ISSN (print)	0191-2917
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science