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

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

Weertman, Julia R. 2012. “Materials Science. Retaining the Nano in Nanocrystalline Alloys.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6097): 921–922.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jansen, Vincent A. A., and Michael P. H. Stumpf. 2005. “Ecology. Making Sense of Evolution in an Uncertain World.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5743): 2005–2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittlinger, Matthias, Rüdiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf. 2006. “The Ant Odometer: Stepping on Stilts and Stumps.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5782): 1965–1967.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Noble, Philip W., Melissa R. Young, Sasha Bernatsky, Richard H. Weisbart, and James E. Hansen. 2014. “A Nucleolytic Lupus Autoantibody Is Toxic to BRCA2-Deficient Cancer Cells.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 5958.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, Kenneth R. 2011. Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Baranauskas, Cécilia, Philippe Palanque, Julio Abascal, and Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, eds. 2007. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007: 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part II. Vol. 4663. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Juyumaya, Jesús, and Sofia Lambropoulou. 2011. “An Adelic Extension of the Jones Polynomial.” In The Mathematics of Knots: Theory and Application, edited by Markus Banagl and Denis Vogel, 125–142. 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 Gallica.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “More Fast Radio Bursts Have Been Detected From Auriga.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/more-fast-radio-bursts-have-been-detected-from-auriga/.

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. 2002. Telecommunications: Better Coordination and Enhanced Accountability Needed to Improve Spectrum Management. GAO-02-906. 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

Rodriguez, Patricia J. 2013. “‘Stepping Stones’: Empowering Mental Health Patients through Connections with Significant Others: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Davis, Julie Hirschfeld. 2017. “A Complex Relationship Has an Abrupt Ending.” New York Times, May 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weertman 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Weertman 2012; Jansen and Stumpf 2005).

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

Two authors: (Jansen and Stumpf 2005)
Three authors: (Wittlinger, Wehner, and Wolf 2006)
4 or more authors: (Noble et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Botanica Gallica
Abbreviation	Acta Bot. Gallica
ISSN (print)	1253-8078
ISSN (online)	2166-3408
Scope	Plant Science