How to format your references using the Arthropod-Plant Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Niu Y (2008) Geochemistry. The origin of alkaline lavas. Science 320:883–884

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang G, David Lou XW (2013) Controlled growth of NiCo₂O₄ nanorods and ultrathin nanosheets on carbon nanofibers for high-performance supercapacitors. Sci Rep 3:1470

A journal article with 3 authors

Fournier AE, GrandPre T, Strittmatter SM (2001) Identification of a receptor mediating Nogo-66 inhibition of axonal regeneration. Nature 409:341–346

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brunet I, Weinl C, Piper M, et al (2005) The transcription factor Engrailed-2 guides retinal axons. Nature 438:94–98

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wills B (2016) Purposely Profitable. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

McGoron AJ, Li C-Z, Lin W-C (eds) (2009) 25th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference 2009, 15 – 17 May 2009, Miami, Florida, USA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Henson MC (2010) Applications and Methodology of νZ. In: Boca P, Bowen JP, Siddiqi J (eds) Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions. Springer, London, pp 117–145

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 Arthropod-Plant Interactions.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Dawn Space Probe Sends New Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres. 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 (1980) Computerized Hospital Medical Information Systems Need Further Evaluation To Ensure Benefits From Huge Investments. 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

Schultz SM (2010) Interpreting the assemblages of Lonnie Holley through his performative explanations. 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

Hodgman J (2016) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM26

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Niu 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Niu 2008; Zhang and David Lou 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and David Lou 2013)
Three or more authors: (Brunet et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Abbreviation	Arthropod Plant Interact.
ISSN (print)	1872-8855
ISSN (online)	1872-8847
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science Ecology