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

Stuessy T (2010) Botany. The rise of sunflowers. Science 329:1605–1606

A journal article with 2 authors

Alekseev V, Lampert W (2001) Maternal control of resting-egg production in Daphnia. Nature 414:899–901

A journal article with 3 authors

Jin Z, Li P, Xiao D (2014) Enhanced electrocatalytic performance for oxygen reduction via active interfaces of layer-by-layered titanium nitride/titanium carbonitride structures. Sci Rep 4:6712

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nicolosi I, Caracciolo FD, Branca S, et al (2014) Volcanic conduit migration over a basement landslide at Mount Etna (Italy). Sci Rep 4:5293

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes BK (2015) Exercising Influence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kini A, Sharma S, Narula J (eds) (2014) Practical Manual of Interventional Cardiology. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Oliveira ACM, Lorena LAN (2007) Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms and Clustering Search. In: Abraham A, Grosan C, Ishibuchi H (eds) Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–99

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

Hale T (2016) Why You Hate The Word “Moist”, According To Science. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-you-find-word-moist-disgusting-according-science/. 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 (1992) Computer Reservation Systems. 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

Tate KJ (2014) Utilizing Canines in a Public School Setting: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Greenhouse L (2008) A Case-by-Case Ruling on Discrimination. New York Times A17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stuessy 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Alekseev and Lampert 2001; Stuessy 2010).

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

Two authors: (Alekseev and Lampert 2001)
Three or more authors: (Nicolosi et al. 2014)

About the journal

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