How to format your references using the Annals of Botany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Botany. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bourzac K. 2015. Spiders: Web of intrigue. Nature 519: S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang W, Aida T. 2012. Chemistry. Thermally responsive pulsating nanotubules. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337: 1462–1463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maduwage K, O’Leary MA, Isbister GK. 2014. Diagnosis of snake envenomation using a simple phospholipase A2 assay. Scientific reports 4: 4827.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lin J-F, Sturhahn W, Zhao J, Shen G, Mao H-K, Hemley RJ. 2005. Sound velocities of hot dense iron: Birch’s law revisited. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 1892–1894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grotewold E, Chappell J, Kellogg EA. 2015. Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Singh A, Devine M (Eds.). 2013. Rural Transformation and Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora: Grandparents, Grandparenting, Community and School Relations. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Vilain C. 2007. Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the 16th Century In: Laird WR, Roux S, eds. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Mechanics and Natural Philosophy Before the Scientific Revolution. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 149–172.

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 Annals of Botany.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2015. Scientists Can Now Make Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-can-now-make-leukemia-cells-kill-each-other/. 30 Oct. 2018.

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. 2006. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Steps Remain in Incorporating Lessons Learned from Other Satellite Programs. 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

Watson AM. 2009. A novel role for MUC7 mucin glycoprotein in the innate immunity and genetic propensity of asthma.

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

Sisario B. 2017. The Killers’ 5th Album Tops Billboard Chart. New York Times: C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bourzac 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Zhang and Aida 2012; Bourzac 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Aida 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Botany
Abbreviation	Ann. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0305-7364
ISSN (online)	1095-8290
Scope	Plant Science