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

Sansom, Mark. 2012. “Louise Johnson (1940-2012).” Nature 490 (7421): 488.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, Dominic D. P., and James H. Fowler. 2011. “The Evolution of Overconfidence.” Nature 477 (7364): 317–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Zhong-Yuan, Kai-Di Sun, and Si-Qi Wang. 2013. “Enhanced Community Structure Detection in Complex Networks with Partial Background Information.” Scientific Reports 3 (November): 3241.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Huai, Tina Nussbaum-Wagler, Bailin Li, Qiong Zhao, Yves Vigouroux, Marianna Faller, Kirsten Bomblies, Lewis Lukens, and John F. Doebley. 2005. “The Origin of the Naked Grains of Maize.” Nature 436 (7051): 714–719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavi, Mohan R. 2016. The Impact of IFRS on Industry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Crush, Jonathan, and Jane Battersby, eds. 2016. Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Marreiros, Goreti, Ricardo Santos, and Carlos Ramos. 2010. “GLSS – Group Learning in Shared Spaces Considering Aspects Like Emotion and Personality.” In Ambient Intelligence and Future Trends-International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2010), edited by Juan Carlos Augusto, Juan M. Corchado, Paulo Novais, and Cesar Analide, 37–44. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Could Research Into Oxytocin And Alcohol Lead To A ‘Sobriety Pill’?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-research-oxytocin-and-alcohol-lead-sobriety-pill/.

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. 1973. Effectiveness and Administration of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. 088970. 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

Osifalujo, Andrew. 2015. “Code-Switching in Working African Americans: Internalized Racism, Minority Status, and Organizational Commitment.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Blecher, George. 2016. “The Diners Fade Away.” New York Times, November 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sansom 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Sansom 2012; Johnson and Fowler 2011).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Fowler 2011)
Three authors: (Zhang, Sun, and Wang 2013)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2005)

About the journal

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