How to format your references using the Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX styles 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
Gühr M. 2012. Chemistry. Getting molecular electrons into motion. Science. 335(6074):1314–1315.
A journal article with 2 authors
Dustin ML, Colman DR. 2002. Neural and immunological synaptic relations. Science. 298(5594):785–789.
A journal article with 3 authors
Zimov SA, Schuur EAG, Chapin FS 3rd. 2006. Climate change. Permafrost and the global carbon budget. Science. 312(5780):1612–1613.
A journal article with 12 or more authors
Rietkerk M, Dekker SC, de Ruiter PC, van de Koppel J. 2004. Self-organized patchiness and catastrophic shifts in ecosystems. Science. 305(5692):1926–1929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Shreves R. 2009. Joomla!® Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
An edited book
Guillet F, Pinaud B, Venturini G, Zighed DA, editors. 2013. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Alper AB. 2014. Pathogenesis of Diabetic Nephropathy: Hemodynamic Alterations/Renin Angiotensin System. In: Lerma EV, Batuman V, editors. Diabetes and Kidney Disease. New York, NY: Springer; p. 29–38.

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 Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection.

Blog post
Davis J. 2015. Study Finds People Can Be Identified By The Bacteria They Breathe Out. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-finds-people-can-be-identified-their-microbial-cloud/

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. 2007. Public Transportation: Preliminary Analysis of Changes to and Trends in FTA’s New Starts and Small Starts Programs. 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
Wager L. 2009. Racial differences in the relationship between child externalizing and corporal punishment: The role of other discipline strategies [Doctoral dissertation]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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
Norton MB. 2012. Woman of the World. New York Times.:BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gühr 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dustin and Colman 2002; Gühr 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Dustin and Colman 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Rietkerk et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleArchives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection
AbbreviationArch. Phytopathol. Pflanzenschutz
ISSN (print)0323-5408
ISSN (online)1477-2906
ScopeAgronomy and Crop Science

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