How to format your references using the Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae (ASBP). 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

Kondrashov F. Russia’s crackdowns are jeopardizing its science. Nature. 2015;523(7561):383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Westhof E, Massire C. Structural biology. Evolution of RNA architecture. Science. 2004;306(5693):62–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai Y, Zhang G, Zhang Y-W. Layer-dependent band alignment and work function of few-layer phosphorene. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6677.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Samad TA, Moore KA, Sapirstein A, Billet S, Allchorne A, Poole S, et al. Interleukin-1beta-mediated induction of Cox-2 in the CNS contributes to inflammatory pain hypersensitivity. Nature. 2001;410(6827):471–475.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hornberg A. Handbook of Machine and Computer Vision. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

Anjum NA, Chan M-T, Umar S, editors. Ascorbate-Glutathione Pathway and Stress Tolerance in Plants. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

He S, Zheng X, Zhang C, Wang L. Topic-Oriented Information Detection and Scoring. In: Chau M, Wang GA, Zheng X, Chen H, Zeng D, Mao W, editors. Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2011, Beijing, China, July 9, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 36–42. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; ).

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 Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae.

Blog post

Hale T. How Many Colors Can You See In This Spiraling Optical Illusion? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016;Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-many-colors-can-you-see-spiralling-optical-illusion/

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. Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Muniyappa VK. Performance analysis of IPv4 versus IPv6 in a simple campus network. 2012;

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

Hayes S by T. The Chess Set on a Table Between Two Chairs. New York Times. 2017;MM19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae
Abbreviation	Acta Soc. Bot. Pol. Pol. Tow. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0001-6977
ISSN (online)	2083-9480
Scope	Plant Science