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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI). 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

Meyer, G. 2015. Playing the field. Science. 348:938

A journal article with 2 authors

Zatorre, R. J., and Krumhansl, C. L. 2002. Neuroscience. Mental models and musical minds. Science. 298:2138–2139

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, J., Lu, H., and Huang, L. 2014. Calciphytoliths (calcium oxalate crystals) analysis for the identification of decayed tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.). Sci. Rep. 4:6703

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paukner, A., Suomi, S. J., Visalberghi, E., and Ferrari, P. F. 2009. Capuchin monkeys display affiliation toward humans who imitate them. Science. 325:880–883

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ugeux, G. 2014. International Finance Regulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Domek, S., and Dworak, P., eds. 2016. Theoretical Developments and Applications of Non-Integer Order Systems: 7th Conference on Non-Integer Order Calculus and Its Applications, Szczecin, Poland. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lilenfeld, L. R. R. 2016. Suicidal Behavior in Eating Disorders. Pages 65–75 in: Bio-Psycho-Social Contributions to Understanding Eating Disorders, Y. Latzer and D. Stein, eds. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2016. Viruses May Be More Infectious In The Morning Than Later In The Day. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/viruses-may-be-more-infectious-in-the-morning-than-later-in-the-day/ [Accessed October 30, 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. 1988. Space Exploration: Cost, Schedule, and Performance of NASA’s Ulysses Mission to the Sun. 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

Veru, P. T. 2009. The National-Dobro Guitar Company: How the resonator guitar survived the age of electric amplification.

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

Grynbaum, M. M., and Koblin, J. 2017. For Fox News, Life After Bill O’Reilly Will Feature Tucker Carlson. New York Times. :B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Meyer 2015; Zatorre and Krumhansl 2002).

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

Two authors: (Zatorre and Krumhansl 2002)
Three or more authors: (Paukner et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Abbreviation	Mol. Plant. Microbe. Interact.
ISSN (print)	0894-0282
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Physiology General Medicine