How to format your references using the Plant Pathology citation style

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

Ciotti L, 2009. Galaxy formation: Anatomy of elliptical galaxies. Nature 460, 333–334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dong KC, Berger JM, 2007. Structural basis for gate-DNA recognition and bending by type IIA topoisomerases. Nature 450, 1201–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lemaître J-M, Bocquet S, Méchali M, 2002. Competence to replicate in the unfertilized egg is conferred by Cdc6 during meiotic maturation. Nature 419, 718–722.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chan HF, Zhang Y, Ho Y-P, Chiu Y-L, Jung Y, Leong KW, 2013. Rapid formation of multicellular spheroids in double-emulsion droplets with controllable microenvironment. Scientific reports 3, 3462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chapman BR, Bolen EG, 2015. Ecology of North America. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kochetov Y, Khachay M, Beresnev V, Nurminski E, Pardalos P (Eds.), 2016. Discrete Optimization and Operations Research: 9th International Conference, DOOR 2016, Vladivostok, Russia, September 19-23, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Costa SO, Nedjah N, de Macedo Mourelle L, 2010. Automatic Modeling of Fuzzy Systems Using Particle Swarm Optimization. In: Rutkowski L,, Scherer R,, Tadeusiewicz R,, Zadeh LA,, Zurada JM, eds. Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: 10th International Conference, ICAISC 2010, Zakopane, Poland, June 13-17, 2010, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 35–42.

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 Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew E, 2014. Unpicking the autism puzzle by linking empathy to reward. 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, 1998. Intercity Passenger Rail: Outlook for Improving Amtrak’s Financial Health. 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

Denz TA, 2012. Performance Evaluation of a Magnetically Enhanced Micro-Cathode Vacuum Arc Thruster. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Walsh MW, 2016. Walmart Sues Puerto Rico, Claiming an Unfair and Onerous Tax Burden. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ciotti, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dong & Berger, 2007; Ciotti, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Dong & Berger, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	Plant Pathol.
ISSN (online)	1365-3059
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Horticulture Plant Science Genetics