How to format your references using the Australian Systematic Botany citation style

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

Boss AP (2000) Star formation. Three’s a crowd. Nature 405, 405, 407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng CL, Novales Flamarique I (2004) Opsin expression: new mechanism for modulating colour vision. Nature 428, 279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfleiderer C, Julian SR, Lonzarich GG (2001) Non-Fermi-liquid nature of the normal state of itinerant-electron ferromagnets. Nature 414, 427–430.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rothschild D, Weissbrod O, Barkan E, Kurilshikov A, Korem T, Zeevi D, Costea PI, Godneva A, Kalka IN, Bar N, Shilo S, Lador D, Vila AV, Zmora N, Pevsner-Fischer M, Israeli D, Kosower N, Malka G, Wolf BC, Avnit-Sagi T, Lotan-Pompan M, Weinberger A, Halpern Z, Carmi S, Fu J, Wijmenga C, Zhernakova A, Elinav E, Segal E (2018) Environment dominates over host genetics in shaping human gut microbiota. Nature 555, 210–215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zirngibl L (2005) ‘Antifungal Azoles.’ (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG)

An edited book

Kocsis RN (Ed) (2008) ‘Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes.’ (Humana Press: Totowa, NJ)

A chapter in an edited book

Antonenko PD, van Gog T, Paas F (2014) Implications of Neuroimaging for Educational Research. ‘Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology’. (Eds JM Spector, MD Merrill, J Elen, MJ Bishop) pp. 51–63. (Springer: New York, NY)

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 Systematic Botany.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) SpaceX Wants To Start Launching Rockets ‘Every Two To Three Weeks’. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-wants-to-start-launching-rockets-every-two-to-three-weeks/.

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 (1995) Student Financial Aid: Data Not Fully Utilized to Identify Inappropriately Awarded Loans and Grants. U.S. Government Printing Office, HEHS-95-89. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grugan PK (2016) The mindfulness practice of clinicians: A systematic review. 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

Saslow L (2006) One Pilgrim and His Very Personal Hymnal. New York Times 14LI10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boss 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Boss 2000; Cheng and Novales Flamarique 2004).

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

Two authors: (Cheng and Novales Flamarique 2004)
Three or more authors: (Rothschild et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Systematic Botany
Abbreviation	Aust. Syst. Bot.
ISSN (print)	1030-1887
ISSN (online)	1446-5701
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science