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

Hvidberg CS, 2000. When Greenland ice melts. Nature 404, 551–552.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaahtomeri K, Sixt M, 2014. Physiology: Relax and come in. Nature 514, 441–442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sellman BR, Mourez M, Collier RJ, 2001. Dominant-negative mutants of a toxin subunit: an approach to therapy of anthrax. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292, 695–697.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ross JJ, Shimmi O, Vilmos P et al., 2001. Twisted gastrulation is a conserved extracellular BMP antagonist. Nature 410, 479–483.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGee G, 2012. Bioethics for beginners. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Mobus GE, 2015. Principles of Systems Science (MC Kalton, Ed,). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dao TH, 2011. Extracellular Enzymes in Sensing Environmental Nutrients and Ecosystem Changes: Ligand Mediation in Organic Phosphorus Cycling. In: Shukla G,, Varma A, eds. Soil Enzymology. Soil Biology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 75–102.

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

Hale T, 2015. The White House Starts Twitter Account To Spread Awareness Of Climate Change. 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, 2010. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing. 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

Hofmann TB, 2008. Adductor and abductor spasmodic dysphonia: A comparison of quality of life issues for those receiving Botox treatment. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Dinardo K, 2014. David Furnish Pours Champagne for Las Vegas. New York Times, TR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hvidberg, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hvidberg, 2000; Vaahtomeri & Sixt, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vaahtomeri & Sixt, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ross et al., 2001)

About the journal

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