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

Arthur W (2002) The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology. Nature 415:757–764

A journal article with 2 authors

Nogués-Bravo D, Rahbek C (2011) Ecology. Communities under climate change. Science 334:1070–1071

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu L-A, Segal D, Brumer P (2013) No-go theorem for ground state cooling given initial system-thermal bath factorization. Sci Rep 3:1824

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Trauth MH, Maslin MA, Deino A, Strecker MR (2005) Late Cenozoic moisture history of East Africa. Science 309:2051–2053

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nellist JG (2005) Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rubin E, Sakamoto K (eds) (2009) Modulation of Protein Stability in Cancer Therapy. Springer US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Romero AJ, Edwards LM, Bauman S, Ritter MK (2014) Reclaiming Malintzin: Healing and Preventing Latina Depression and Suicide. In: Edwards LM, Bauman S, Ritter MK (eds) Preventing Adolescent Depression and Suicide Among Latinas: Resilience Research and Theory. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–57

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

Fang J (2014) Oldest Human Poop Tells Us What Neanderthals Ate. In: 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 (2017) Airport Funding: FAA’s and Industry’s Cost Estimates for Airport Development. 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

Abraham C (2017) How Are Nonresident African American Fathers Involved in Their Children’s Academic Success? Doctoral dissertation, 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

Scheiber N (2016) Fight for $15 Widens Focus. 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 (Arthur 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur 2002; Nogués-Bravo and Rahbek 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nogués-Bravo and Rahbek 2011)
Three or more authors: (Trauth et al. 2005)

About the journal

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