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

Service RF. 2002. American Chemical Society meeting. Science invades the Magic Kingdom. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 462–463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sive H, Sarma S. 2013. Education: online on-ramps. Nature 499: 277–278.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bichot NP, Rossi AF, Desimone R. 2005. Parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in macaque area V4. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 529–534.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gertsman I, Gan L, Guttman M, et al. 2009. An unexpected twist in viral capsid maturation. Nature 458: 646–650.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balmori D. 2014. Drawing and Reinventing Landscape. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Thotahewa KMS. 2014. Ultra Wideband Wireless Body Area Networks (J-M Redouté and MR Yuce, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dowling J, Lambert J, Parker J, et al. 2010. Automatic MRI Atlas-Based External Beam Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning for Prostate Cancer In: Madabhushi A, Dowling J, Yan P, Fenster A, Abolmaesumi P, Hata N, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Prostate Cancer Imaging. Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Intervention: International Workshop, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2010, Beijing,China, September 24, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 25–33.

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

Carpineti A. 2016. Google Shows How Earth Has Changed In The Last 33 Years. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/google-shows-how-earth-has-changed-in-the-last-33-years/. 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. 1969. Review of Selected Aspects of The Management and Operation of Tracking and Data Acquisition Stations at Goldstone, California. 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

Nomberg RI. 2009. Understanding interest group strategies: A case study of civic leaders collaborating with local government.

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

Powell M. 2017. The Home Run Explosion Is Not Exactly Beyond Suspicion. New York Times: B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Service 2002; Sive and Sarma 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sive and Sarma 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gertsman et al. 2009)

About the journal

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