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

Grayson M (2010) Nutrigenomics. Nature 468, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aqvist J, Luzhkov V (2000) Ion permeation mechanism of the potassium channel. Nature 404, 881–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaan HYK, Hackney DD, Kozielski F (2011) The structure of the kinesin-1 motor-tail complex reveals the mechanism of autoinhibition. Science (New York, NY) 333, 883–885.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Park SJ, Hong JT, Choi SJ, Kim HS, Park WK, Han ST, Park JY, Lee S, Kim DS, Ahn YH (2014) Detection of microorganisms using terahertz metamaterials. Scientific Reports 4, 4988.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Asif SZ (2010) ‘Next Generation Mobile Communications Ecosystem.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Sako K (Ed) (2016) ‘Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2016: The Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 29 - March 4, 2016, Proceedings.’ (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Sukhoivanov IA, Guryev IV (2009) Band Structure Computation of 2D and 3D Photonic Crystals. ‘Photonic Crystals: Physics and Practical Modeling’. (Ed IV Guryev) Springer Series in Optical Sciences. pp. 67–101. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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

Andrew E (2016) What Counts As ‘Medical Marijuana’ Varies From State To State – And That’s A Problem. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-counts-medical-marijuana-varies-state-state-and-s-problem/.

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) Biosurveillance: Observations on the Cancellation of BioWatch Gen-3 and Future Considerations for the Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-14-267T. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fuller JB (2015) The Woodsman’s Son. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Williams J (2016) A Laugh Factory Looks Back. New York Times BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Aqvist and Luzhkov 2000; Grayson 2010).

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

Two authors: (Aqvist and Luzhkov 2000)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2014)

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