How to format your references using the Australasian Plant Disease Notes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Plant Disease Notes. 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

Jewkes R (2010) HIV/AIDS. Gender inequities must be addressed in HIV prevention. Science 329:145–147

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun F, He S (2014) Transformation magneto-statics and illusions for magnets. Sci Rep 4:6593

A journal article with 3 authors

Esvelt KM, Carlson JC, Liu DR (2011) A system for the continuous directed evolution of biomolecules. Nature 472:499–503

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dai ZG, Wang XY, Wu XF, Zhang B (2006) X-ray flares from postmerger millisecond pulsars. Science 311:1127–1129

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller MA (2005) Internet Technologies Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Naterer GF (2013) Hydrogen Production from Nuclear Energy. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Alper AB (2014) Pathogenesis of Diabetic Nephropathy: Hemodynamic Alterations/Renin Angiotensin System. In: Lerma EV, Batuman V (eds) Diabetes and Kidney Disease. Springer, New York, NY, pp 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 Australasian Plant Disease Notes.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Blonde Hair Mutation Identified. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blonde-hair-mutation-identified/. 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 (2010) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Ploehs JR (2009) The literacy benefits of middle school tutors who tutor emergent readers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Kenigsberg B (2016) Review: ‘Danny Says,’ a Paean to a Rock Gadfly and Tastemaker. New York Times C10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jewkes 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jewkes 2010; Sun and He 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sun and He 2014)
Three or more authors: (Dai et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australasian Plant Disease Notes
Abbreviation	Australas. Plant Dis. Notes
ISSN (online)	1833-928X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science