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

Savage, N. 2014. Clotting factors: Stretching time. Nature 515(7528): S162-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Adrain, C., and Martin, S.J. 2006. Cell biology. Double knockout blow for caspases. Science 311(5762): 785–786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelkmans, L., Püntener, D., and Helenius, A. 2002. Local actin polymerization and dynamin recruitment in SV40-induced internalization of caveolae. Science 296(5567): 535–539.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, K.-Y., D’Acquisto, F., Hayden, M.S., Shim, J.-H., and Ghosh, S. 2005. PDK1 nucleates T cell receptor-induced signaling complex for NF-kappaB activation. Science 308(5718): 114–118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zlokarnik, M. 2005. Scale-up. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Bouvry, P., Kłopotek, M.A., Leprévost, F., Marciniak, M., Mykowiecka, A., and Rybiński, H. (Editors). 2012. Security and Intelligent Information Systems: International Joint Conferences, SIIS 2011, Warsaw, Poland, June 13-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sandkuhl, K. 2016. On the Role of Enterprise Modelling in Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems. In Perspectives in Business Informatics Research: 15th International Conference, BIR 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, September 15–16, 2016, Proceedings. Edited by V. Řepa and T. Bruckner. Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp. 50–64.

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

Andrew, E. 2015, August 12. Indian White Tiger Could Be Too Shy To Mate. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/indian-white-tiger-could-be-shy-mate/ [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. 2017. Technology Assessment: Internet of Things: Status and implications of an increasingly connected world. 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

Meier, M.R. 2009. Exploring the effects of school calendars on student achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Crow, K. 2003, April 20. Fish Are Running, Not the Meter. New York Times: 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Adrain and Martin 2006; Savage 2014).

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

Two authors: (Adrain and Martin 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2005)

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