How to format your references using the Research in Plant Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Plant Disease (RPD). 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

Arthur, C. 2013. Academics should not remain silent on hacking. Nature 504: 333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emanuel, E. J. and Wertheimer, A. 2006. Public health. Who should get influenza vaccine when not all can? Science 312: 854–855.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runnels, L. W., Yue, L. and Clapham, D. E. 2001. TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities. Science 291: 1043–1047.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dickinson, M., Farman, G., Frye, M., Bekyarova, T., Gore, D., Maughan, D. and Irving, T. 2005. Molecular dynamics of cyclically contracting insect flight muscle in vivo. Nature 433: 330–334.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Talbot, D. B. 2012. Frequency Acquisition Techniques for Phase Locked Loops. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leese, P. and Crouthamel, J. (eds.). 2016. Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After. Cham, Springer International Publishing. XV, 310 p. 1 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Schurz, G. 2011. Abductive Belief Revision in Science. In: Belief Revision Meets Philosophy of Science, eds. by E. J. Olsson and S. Enqvist, pp. 77–104. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands.

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 Research in Plant Disease.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/dispersants-sprayed-wake-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-more-toxic-oil-alone/ [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. 2016. Polar Satellites: NOAA Faces Challenges and Uncertainties that Could Affect the Availability of Critical Weather Data. 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

Alsaadi, A. 2016. Smart smoke and fire detection with wireless and global system for mobile technology. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Barron, J. 2017. A Cathedral-Like Home For a Church’s Peacocks. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arthur, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur, 2013; Emanuel and Wertheimer, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Emanuel and Wertheimer, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Dickinson et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Plant Disease
ISSN (print)	1598-2262
ISSN (online)	2233-9191
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