How to format your references using the Botany citation style

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

Lerner, I.V. 2007. Physics. So small yet still giant. Science 316(5821): 63–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

Winograd, I.J., and Roseboom, E.H., Jr. 2008. Nuclear waste. Yucca Mountain revisited. Science 320(5882): 1426–1427.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sezen, U.U., Chazdon, R.L., and Holsinger, K.E. 2005. Genetic consequences of tropical second-growth forest regeneration. Science 307(5711): 891.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Skålén, K., Gustafsson, M., Rydberg, E.K., Hultén, L.M., Wiklund, O., Innerarity, T.L., and Borén, J. 2002. Subendothelial retention of atherogenic lipoproteins in early atherosclerosis. Nature 417(6890): 750–754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baher, H. 2012. Signal Processing and Integrated Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Feng, Z. 2015. Cognitive Wireless Networks. Edited ByQ. Zhang and P. Zhang. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kurik, L., Kalamees, T., and Kallavus, U. 2016. Diagnosis of Moisture Movements in Massive Dolostone Walls of Medieval Churches. In Recent Developments in Building Diagnosis Techniques. Edited by J.M.P.Q. Delgado. Springer, Singapore. pp. 69–90.

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 Botany.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2017, January 1. 16 Awesome New Things We Learned In 2016. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/16-awesome-new-things-we-learned-in-2016/ [accessed 30 October 2018].

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. 1991. Supercomputing in Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Almasaari, A.H. 2017. Arab American women’s identity crises in Mohja Kahf’s “The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf” and Laila Halaby’s “West of the Jordan.” 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

Kishkovsky, S. 1998, November 1. With a New Western Arrival, Moscow Rocks. New York Times: 235.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lerner 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Lerner 2007; Winograd and Roseboom 2008).

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

Two authors: (Winograd and Roseboom 2008)
Three or more authors: (Skålén et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Botany
Abbreviation	Botany
ISSN (print)	1916-2790
ISSN (online)	1916-2804
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Ecology