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

Mills E. 2012. Climate change. The greening of insurance. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338: 1424–1425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ransohoff RM, Stevens B. 2011. Neuroscience. How many cell types does it take to wire a brain? Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 1391–1392.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charpinet S, Fontaine G, Brassard P. 2009. Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the white-dwarf stage. Nature 461: 501–503.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Murakami M, Hirose K, Yurimoto H, Nakashima S, Takafuji N. 2002. Water in Earth’s lower mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 1885–1887.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good PI, Hardin JW. 2006. Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ding J. 2006. Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems (JE Gower and DS Schmidt, Eds.). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu D, Yu X, Rao J, Yu L. 2016. Comparative Study on the Status and Strategies of Infrastructure Construction of ICT in Education Between China and the United States In: Huang R, Kinshuk, Price JK, eds. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. ICT in Education in Global Context: Comparative Reports of Innovations in K-12 Education. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 95–106.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Finding An Affordable Way To Use Graphene Is The Key To Its Success. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/finding-affordable-way-use-graphene-key-its-success/. 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. 1994. Health, Education, Employment, and Income Security Reports. 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

Prakash A. 2010. Empire on the Seine: Surveillance, Citizenship, and North African Migrants in Paris (1925–1975).

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

Pilon M. 2011. Scandals Test the N.C.A.A.’s Top Rules Enforcer. New York Times: D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mills 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ransohoff and Stevens 2011; Mills 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ransohoff and Stevens 2011)
Three or more authors: (Murakami et al. 2002)

About the journal

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