How to format your references using the New Zealand Plant Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Plant Protection. 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

Schmidt C 2015. Immunology: Another shot at cancer. Nature 527: S105-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saykally RJ, Wales DJ 2012. Chemistry. Pinning down the water hexamer. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336: 814–815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brown MS, Ye J, Goldstein JL 2010. Medicine. HDL miR-ed down by SREBP introns. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 1495–1496.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zeng Y, Lu G, Wang H, Du J, Ying Z, Liu C 2014. Positive temperature coefficient thermistors based on carbon nanotube/polymer composites. Scientific reports 4: 6684.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thornicroft G, Semrau M, Alem A, Drake RE, Ito H, Mari J, McGeorge P, Thara R 2011. Community Mental Health. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ahsanullah M 2014. Normal and Student´s t Distributions and Their Applications. In: Kibria BMG, In: Shakil M ed. Atlantis Press, Paris. XII, 157 p. 36 illus., 27 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Slutsky DJ 2015. Osteoarthritis of the Thumb. In: Trail IA, In: Fleming ANM ed. Springer, London. Pp. 71–91.

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 New Zealand Plant Protection.

Blog post

Carpineti A 2015. What’s Inside A Red Giant? IFLScience.

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 1992. Household Goods Transport. 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

Curtis KJ 2010. Mozambican national anthems: Memory, performance, and nation-building. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Kelly D 1993. IN SHORT: NONFICTION.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmidt 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Saykally & Wales 2012, Schmidt 2015).

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

Two authors: (Saykally & Wales 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zeng et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Plant Protection
Abbreviation	N. Z. Plant Prot.
ISSN (print)	1175-9003
ISSN (online)	1179-352X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Horticulture Insect Science