How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Botany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Mokyr J (2015) ECONOMICS. Intellectuals and the rise of the modern economy. Science 349:141–142

A journal article with 2 authors

Youk H, van Oudenaarden A (2009) Growth landscape formed by perception and import of glucose in yeast. Nature 462:875–879

A journal article with 3 authors

Titus SL, Wells JA, Rhoades LJ (2008) Repairing research integrity. Nature 453:980–982

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ha T, Rasnik I, Cheng W, et al (2002) Initiation and re-initiation of DNA unwinding by the Escherichia coli Rep helicase. Nature 419:638–641

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zeng K, Lou W, Li M (2011) Multihop Wireless Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wilson AK, Peterson KA, Woon DE (eds) (2015) Thom H. Dunning, Jr: A Festschrift from Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Han Y, Saxena S (2013) Algorithms for Testing Length Four Permutations. In: Fellows M, Tan X, Zhu B (eds) Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Third Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2013, Dalian, China, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 17–23

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 Brazilian Journal of Botany.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) World’s Largest Offshore Windfarm Given Green Light To Be Built Off Britain’s Coast. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-largest-offshore-windfarm-given-green-light-to-be-built-off-britains-coast/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2001) Computer-Based Patient Records: Better Planning and Oversight By VA, DOD, and IHS Would Enhance Health Data Sharing. 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

Bartenhagen J (2012) Transitioning organizations for sustainability: Exploring the intersection of sustainability, worldview, and organization development. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Rosenberg E (2016) Misconduct Complaint Against Christie Has Merit, Judge Says. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mokyr 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Youk and van Oudenaarden 2009; Mokyr 2015).

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

Two authors: (Youk and van Oudenaarden 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ha et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brazilian Journal of Botany
Abbreviation	Rev. Bras. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0100-8404
ISSN (online)	1806-9959
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