How to format your references using the Australasian Plant Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian 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	Download the output style file
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

Müller RD (2010) Geophysics. Sedimentary basins feeling the heat from below. Science 329:769–770

A journal article with 2 authors

Scotland RW, Sanderson MJ (2004) The significance of few versus many in the tree of life. Science 303:643

A journal article with 3 authors

Myung K, Chen C, Kolodner RD (2001) Multiple pathways cooperate in the suppression of genome instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature 411:1073–1076

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bethlem HL, Berden G, Crompvoets FM, et al (2000) Electrostatic trapping of ammonia molecules. Nature 406:491–494

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoker JJ (1988) Differential Geometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Imine H (2011) Sliding Mode Based Analysis and Identification of Vehicle Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wijesinghe L, Siriwardena P, Dias D (2013) A Wireless Sensor Network for Early Warning of Elephant Intrusions. In: Shaikh FK, Chowdhry BS, Ammari HM, et al. (eds) Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries: First International Conference, WSN4DC, Jamshoro, Pakistan, April 24-26, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 38–50

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 Pathology.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Survey Finds 361 New Bird Species - And A Quarter Are Already Threatened. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/survey-finds-361-new-bird-species-and-quarter-are-already-threatened/. 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 (1995) Highway Signs: Conversion to Metric Units Could Be Costly. 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

Gilbert C (2017) Factors Associated With Dietetic Interns’ Knowledge of Sodium and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Rojas R, Mueller B (2015) Conflicting Accounts Emerge on What Set Off Deadly Violence at Upstate Church. New York Times A26

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Müller 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Scotland and Sanderson 2004; Müller 2010).

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

Two authors: (Scotland and Sanderson 2004)
Three or more authors: (Bethlem et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australasian Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	Australas. Plant Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0815-3191
ISSN (online)	1448-6032
Scope	Plant Science