How to format your references using the Phytopathology citation style

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

Baylis, F. 2010. Pregnant women deserve better. Nature 465:689–690.

A journal article with 2 authors

Süsstrunk, R., and Huber, S. D. 2015. PHYSICS. Observation of phononic helical edge states in a mechanical topological insulator. Science 349:47–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuck, C., Pernice, W. H. P., and Tang, H. X. 2013. Waveguide integrated low noise NbTiN nanowire single-photon detectors with milli-Hz dark count rate. Sci. Rep. 3:1893.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blair, K. M., Turner, L., Winkelman, J. T., Berg, H. C., and Kearns, D. B. 2008. A molecular clutch disables flagella in the Bacillus subtilis biofilm. Science 320:1636–1638.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ziegler, M. 2012. Geotechnische Nachweise nach EC 7 und DIN 1054. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Brocke, J. V., and Rosemann, M., eds. 2010. Handbook on Business Process Management 1: Introduction, Methods, and Information Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Holovaty, A., and Kaplan-Moss, J. 2008. The Django Template System. In The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, ed. Jacob Kaplan-Moss. Berkeley, CA: Apress, pp. 31–58.

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 Phytopathology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Antioxidant Supplements May Drive Skin Cancer Spread. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antioxidant-supplements-may-drive-skin-cancer-spread/ (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. 1982. Improving the Collection of Debts Owed the Government. 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

Harvey, T. N. 2016. Effects of low pass filtered input on adult non-lexical intonation in second language acquisition. .

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

Wagner, J. 2016. Walker Takes One-Year Deal, but Cespedes Tells Mets No. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baylis 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Baylis 2010; Süsstrunk and Huber 2015).

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

Two authors: (Süsstrunk and Huber 2015)
Three or more authors: (Blair et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytopathology
Abbreviation	Phytopathology
ISSN (print)	0031-949X
ISSN (online)	1943-7684
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science