How to format your references using the Australian Journal of Botany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal 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

Stremlau M (2007) GE Prize-winning essay. Why Old World monkeys are resistant to HIV-1. Science (New York, NY) 318, 1565–1566.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fishman L, Saunders A (2008) Centromere-associated female meiotic drive entails male fitness costs in monkeyflowers. Science (New York, NY) 322, 1559–1562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mani RG, Kriisa A, Wegscheider W (2013) Size-dependent giant-magnetoresistance in millimeter scale GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron devices. Scientific Reports 3, 2747.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Won J, Kim M, Yi Y-W, Kim YH, Jung N, Kim TK (2005) A magnetic nanoprobe technology for detecting molecular interactions in live cells. Science (New York, NY) 309, 121–125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bucci D (2017) ‘Analog Electronics for Measuring Systems.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Sansone C, Kittler J, Roli F (Eds) (2011) ‘Multiple Classifier Systems: 10th International Workshop, MCS 2011, Naples, Italy, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings.’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Sugimura H, Yamada H, Kageyama S, Yamamura Y, Yokota N, Mori H, Iwaizumi M, Shinmura K, Kurachi K, Nakamura T, Tsuboi M, Maekawa M, Kahyo T (2011) Glioblastoma: Germline Mutation of TP53. ‘Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 2: Gliomas: Glioblastoma (Part 2)’. (Ed MA Hayat) pp. 31–38. (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht)

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 Australian Journal of Botany.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) #Distractinglysexy: Sir Tim Hunt’s Gift To Feminism In Science. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/distractinglysexy-sir-tim-hunt-s-gift-feminism-science/.

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 (2005) School Meal Programs: Competitive Foods Are Widely Available and Generate Substantial Revenues for Schools. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-05-563. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alexander M (2009) Reasoning processes used by paramedics to solve clinical problems. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Gordon MR, Schmitt E (2017) Showdown Expected in the Euphrates Valley, but It’s Complicated. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stremlau 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Stremlau 2007; Fishman and Saunders 2008).

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

Two authors: (Fishman and Saunders 2008)
Three or more authors: (Won et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of Botany
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0067-1924
ISSN (online)	1444-9862
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science