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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Menzel D. Surface science. Water on a metal surface. Science. 2002;295(5552):58–59.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Person AL, Raman IM. Purkinje neuron synchrony elicits time-locked spiking in the cerebellar nuclei. Nature. 2011;481(7382):502–505.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Jing J, Bishop CA, Wu L-A. Nonperturbative dynamical decoupling with random control. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6229.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Helmlinger G, Endo M, Ferrara N, Hlatky L, Jain RK. Formation of endothelial cell networks. Nature. 2000;405(6783):139–141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Bernheim MLC. Ciba Foundation Symposium 39 - Monoamine Oxidase and its Inhibition: Ciba/Monoamine. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2008. (Novartis Foundation Symposia; ).
An edited book
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Grimes S. iOS 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2012.
A chapter in an edited book
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Gauravaram P, Knudsen LR. On Randomizing Hash Functions to Strengthen the Security of Digital Signatures. In: Joux A, editor. Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2009: 28th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Cologne, Germany, April 26-30, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 88–105. (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
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Andrews R. One Simple Act To Stop Climate Change In Its Tracks – Vote [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016;Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/one-simple-act-to-stop-climate-change-in-its-tracks-vote/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Transition From School to Work: States Are Developing New Strategies to Prepare Students for Jobs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Glassett Farrelly S. Understanding Alternative Education: A Mixed Methods Examination of Student Experiences. 2013;

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
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Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017;C24.

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 titleActa Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae
AbbreviationActa Soc. Bot. Pol. Pol. Tow. Bot.
ISSN (print)0001-6977
ISSN (online)2083-9480
ScopePlant Science

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