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

Hellstrom J (2012) Anthropology. Absolute dating of cave art. Science (New York, NY) 336, 1387–1388.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaquero-Sedas MI, Vega-Palas MA (2014) Determination of Arabidopsis thaliana telomere length by PCR. Scientific Reports 4, 5540.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wong KM, Suchard MA, Huelsenbeck JP (2008) Alignment uncertainty and genomic analysis. Science (New York, NY) 319, 473–476.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pan Y, Birdsey RA, Fang J, Houghton R, Kauppi PE, Kurz WA, Phillips OL, Shvidenko A, Lewis SL, Canadell JG, Ciais P, Jackson RB, Pacala SW, McGuire AD, Piao S, Rautiainen A, Sitch S, Hayes D (2011) A large and persistent carbon sink in the world’s forests. Science (New York, NY) 333, 988–993.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barbosa P, Berry DL, Kary CS (2014) ‘Insect Histology.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Armstrong R, Durnescu I (Eds) (2016) ‘Parole and Beyond: International Experiences of Life After Prison.’ (Palgrave Macmillan UK: London)

A chapter in an edited book

Sanzana HC, Almonacid A, Mendez EO (2015) Good Practices in Private Parks. Valdivian Coastal Reservation. ‘Tourism in Latin America: Cases of Success’. (Eds A Panosso Netto, LGG Trigo) pp. 85–103. (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

Andrew E (2015) Asthmatic Sea Otter Learns To Use An Inhaler. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/asthmatic-sea-otter-learns-use-inhaler/.

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 (2007) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Further Actions Needed to Effectively Manage Risks. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-08-183T. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson A (2015) Instructional Practices in Physical Education Programs for Students with Disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Brantley B (2017) Some Friends Just Aren’t Huggers. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hellstrom 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hellstrom 2012; Vaquero-Sedas and Vega-Palas 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vaquero-Sedas and Vega-Palas 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pan et al. 2011)

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