How to format your references using the Phytoparasitica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Phytoparasitica. 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

Lincoln, T. (2000). Cardiac arrest can be less of a gamble. Nature, 408(6810), 302.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, J., & Chan, F. K.-M. (2014). Cell biology. RIPK3 takes another deadly turn. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1322–1323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dahl, J. E., Liu, S. G., & Carlson, R. M. K. (2003). Isolation and structure of higher diamondoids, nanometer-sized diamond molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5603), 96–99.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mähönen, A. P., Bishopp, A., Higuchi, M., Nieminen, K. M., Kinoshita, K., Törmäkangas, K., et al. (2006). Cytokinin signaling and its inhibitor AHP6 regulate cell fate during vascular development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5757), 94–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, G. M., & Furlong, J. C. (2010). Environmental Biotechnology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ammari, H. M. (Ed.). (2014). The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks: Volume 1: Fundamentals. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wolverton, S., Barker, A., & Dombrosky, J. (2016). Paleoethnobiology. In U. P. Albuquerque & R. R. Nóbrega Alves (Eds.), Introduction to Ethnobiology (pp. 25–32). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Phytoparasitica.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 27). We’re About To See A Reused SpaceX Rocket Launch For The First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/were-about-to-see-a-reused-space-rocket-launch-for-the-first-time/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1991). Federal Research: SEMATECH’s Efforts to Develop and Transfer Manufacturing Technology (No. RCED-91-139FS). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Birtler, E. R. (2014). Group therapy and knowledge of neuroplastic principles: The impact of health literacy on client locus of control in a therapy setting (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1998, May 10). Circular Makes the Rounds and Residents Complain. New York Times, p. 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lincoln 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lincoln 2000; Zhang and Chan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Chan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Mähönen et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytoparasitica
Abbreviation	Phytoparasitica
ISSN (print)	0334-2123
ISSN (online)	1876-7184
Scope	Insect Science Plant Science