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

Brown RH Jr (2008) Developmental biology. Neuron research leaps ahead. Science (New York, NY) 321, 1169–1170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pitaevskii L, Stringari S (2002) Ultracold matter. The quest for superfluidity in Fermi gases. Science (New York, NY) 298, 2144–2146.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hooper LV, Littman DR, Macpherson AJ (2012) Interactions between the microbiota and the immune system. Science (New York, NY) 336, 1268–1273.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brollo MEF, López-Ruiz R, Muraca D, Figueroa SJA, Pirota KR, Knobel M (2014) Compact Ag@Fe3O4 core-shell nanoparticles by means of single-step thermal decomposition reaction. Scientific Reports 4, 6839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelsey JE, Newport DJ, Nemeroff CB (2006) ‘Principles of Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

El Naqa I, Li R, Murphy MJ (Eds) (2015) ‘Machine Learning in Radiation Oncology: Theory and Applications.’ (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Khare S, Katre P, Galande S (2016) Epigenetic Regulation of Islet Development and Regeneration. ‘Pancreatic Islet Biology’. (Ed A A. Hardikar) Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. pp. 83–109. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

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

Carpineti A (2016) Did Planet Nine Give The Solar System Its Tilt? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/did-planet-nine-give-the-solar-system-its-tilt/.

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 (2014) James Webb Space Telescope: Project Facing Increased Schedule Risk with Significant Work Remaining. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-15-100. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rostambeigi N (2010) Analyzing the correlates of patients’ adoption of preventative health services: Perceived risk, cost and availability of health care services. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gustines GG (2013) Eye-Popping Storytelling (Nostalgic To Naughty). New York Times C33.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Pitaevskii and Stringari 2002; Brown 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pitaevskii and Stringari 2002)
Three or more authors: (Brollo et al. 2014)

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