How to format your references using the Plant Pathology citation style

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

Meijer GI, 2010. Engineering. Cooling energy-hungry data centers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328, 318–319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tabas I, Glass CK, 2013. Anti-inflammatory therapy in chronic disease: challenges and opportunities. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339, 166–172.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim S-H, Kim H, Kim NJ, 2015. Brittle intermetallic compound makes ultrastrong low-density steel with large ductility. Nature 518, 77–79.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Park T, Ronning F, Yuan HQ et al., 2006. Hidden magnetism and quantum criticality in the heavy fermion superconductor CeRhIn5. Nature 440, 65–68.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGee G, 2012. Bioethics for beginners. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Mays J, Marston G, Tomlinson J (Eds.), 2016. Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand: Perspectives from the Neoliberal Frontier. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Philippe X, 2016. Les dommages-intérêts pour violation des droits de l’homme en France. In: Bagińska E, ed. Damages for Violations of Human Rights: A Comparative Study of Domestic Legal Systems. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 69–100.

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 Plant Pathology.

Blog post

Fang J, 2015. DNA Nanobots Set To Seek and Destroy Cancer Cells In Human Trial. 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, 1977. Indian Education in the Public School System Needs More Direction from the Congress. 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

Koenig WE, 2010. Leadership for the whole in the mythic field of C. G. Jung’s unconscious processes. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Sisario B, 2016. Beyoncé, With 9 Grammy Nods, Will Face Off Against Adele. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meijer, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Meijer, 2010; Tabas & Glass, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tabas & Glass, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Park et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Pathology
Abbreviation	Plant Pathol.
ISSN (online)	1365-3059
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Horticulture Plant Science Genetics