How to format your references using the Tropical Plant Pathology citation style

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

Running SW (2006) Climate change. Is global warming causing more, larger wildfires? Science 313:927–928

A journal article with 2 authors

McGuire AL, Gibbs RA (2006) Genetics. No longer de-identified. Science 312:370–371

A journal article with 3 authors

Fraser C, Hanage WP, Spratt BG (2007) Recombination and the nature of bacterial speciation. Science 315:476–480

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fischer A, Sananbenesi F, Wang X, et al (2007) Recovery of learning and memory is associated with chromatin remodelling. Nature 447:178–182

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Filla JJ, Brown HE (2013) Prospect Research for Fundraisers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hsiao GC (2008) Boundary Integral Equations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Polleres A (2012) How (Well) Do Datalog, SPARQL and RIF Interplay? In: Barceló P, Pichler R (eds) Datalog in Academia and Industry: Second International Workshop, Datalog 2.0, Vienna, Austria, September 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 27–30

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 Tropical Plant Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Can Civilisation Continue? An Earth System Scientist Explains. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/can-civilisation-continue-earth-system-scientist-explains/. 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 (1977) Control of the National Science Foundation Peer Review Study. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goldstein TW (2010) Writing in red: The East German Writers Union and the role of literary intellectuals in the German Democratic Republic, 1971-90. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Paulson M (2017) Amy Schumer to Make Her Broadway Debut. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Running 2006).
This sentence cites two references (McGuire and Gibbs 2006; Running 2006).

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

Two authors: (McGuire and Gibbs 2006)
Three or more authors: (Fischer et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tropical Plant Pathology
ISSN (online)	1983-2052
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