How to format your references using the Acta Botanica Croatica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Botanica Croatica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Prelec, D. 2004: A Bayesian truth serum for subjective data.: Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, 462–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Junquera, J., Ghosez, P. 2003: Critical thickness for ferroelectricity in perovskite ultrathin films.: Nature 422, 506–509.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wada, S., Oishi, M., Yamada, T.K. 2003: A newly discovered species of living baleen whale.: Nature 426, 278–281.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, D.J., Thomas, S., Grant, T., Botimer, J., Fisk, Z., Xia, J. 2013: Surface hall effect and nonlocal transport in SmB₆: evidence for surface conduction.: Scientific reports 3, 3150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., Liew, T.H., Yeap, B.L. 2005: Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding,: Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kerren, A., Purchase, H.C., Ward, M.O. eds. 2014: Multivariate Network Visualization: Dagstuhl Seminar #13201, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 12-17, 2013, Revised Discussions,: Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mizutani, T., Igarashi, S., Ikeda, Y., Shio, M. 2006: Labeled @-Calculus: Formalism for Time-Concerned Human Factors. In: Calmet, J., Ida, T., Wang, D. (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation: 8th International Conference, AISC 2006 Beijing, China, September 20-22, 2006 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., 25–39. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

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 Acta Botanica Croatica.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2017: How Mapping Teenagers’ Brains Has Helped Us Understand More About Schizophrenia, IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-mapping-teenagers-brains-has-helped-us-understand-more-about-schizophrenia/.

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 1998: Airport Financing: Funding Sources for Airport Development,: 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

Moreau, E.L. 2014: Sailing on a Sea of Hope: Exploring the Impact of Federal Consolidation on Individual Identification and Organizational Identity. Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC, George Washington University.

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

ROBERT KELLY; Robert Kelly is a poet who teaches literature, writing at Bard College 1990: “I’D RATHER BE A GREAT BAD POET.”: New York Times,: 11 February: p. 77.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prelec 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Junquera and Ghosez 2003, Prelec 2004).

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

Two authors: (Junquera and Ghosez 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Botanica Croatica
ISSN (print)	0365-0588
ISSN (online)	1847-8476
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