How to format your references using the Journal of General Plant Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of General 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

Maienschein J (2000) Old wine in new bottles. Nature 407:21

A journal article with 2 authors

Pouille F, Scanziani M (2001) Enforcement of temporal fidelity in pyramidal cells by somatic feed-forward inhibition. Science 293:1159–1163

A journal article with 3 authors

Prakash M, Quéré D, Bush JWM (2008) Surface tension transport of prey by feeding shorebirds: the capillary ratchet. Science 320:931–934

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Robinson AL, Donahue NM, Shrivastava MK, et al (2007) Rethinking organic aerosols: semivolatile emissions and photochemical aging. Science 315:1259–1262

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Habib MAR (2010) Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Petzek E, Băncilă R (eds) (2015) Economical Bridge Solutions based on innovative composite dowels and integrated abutments: Ecobridge. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Oliva JM, Francés-Monerris A, Roca-Sanjuán D (2015) Quantum Chemistry of Excited States in Polyhedral Boranes. In: Hnyk D, McKee M (eds) Boron: The Fifth Element. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 97–119

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 Journal of General Plant Pathology.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2015) NASA Satellite Provides Global Precipitation Map And 3D Video Of Winter Storm. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nasa-satellite-provides-global-precipitation-map-and-3d-video-snowstorm/. 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 (1971) Influence Of Public Affairs Organizations On Information And Advertising Programs. 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

Survis FD (2010) Residential lawn water use and lawn irrigation practices: Wellington, Florida. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Rabbitt L (2013) Neither Teacher Nor Nurse. New York Times BU9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maienschein 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Maienschein 2000; Pouille and Scanziani 2001).

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

Two authors: (Pouille and Scanziani 2001)
Three or more authors: (Robinson et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of General Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	J. Gen. Plant Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1345-2630
ISSN (online)	1610-739X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science