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

Holman CM (2008) Genetics. Trends in human gene patent litigation. Science 322:198–199

A journal article with 2 authors

Losick R, Sonenshein AL (2001) Molecular biology. Turning gene regulation on its head. Science 293:2018–2019

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldini G, Cannone F, Chirico G (2005) Pre-unfolding resonant oscillations of single green fluorescent protein molecules. Science 309:1096–1100

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hou C, Zuo W, Moses ME, et al (2008) Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny. Science 322:736–739

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elias H-G (2006) Macromolecules. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Hanjalić K, Krol RV de, Lekić A (eds) (2008) Sustainable Energy Technologies: Options and Prospects. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Lau HYK, Wong EYC (2005) An AIS-Based Dynamic Routing (AISDR) Framework. In: Jacob C, Pilat ML, Bentley PJ, Timmis JI (eds) Artificial Immune Systems: 4th International Conference, ICARIS 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada, August 14-17, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–71

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

Andrews R (2016) This Harpoon Is Being “Fired” Into People’s Hearts To Save Their Lives. In: IFLScience. 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 (2002) Intercity Passenger Rail: Congress Faces Critical Decisions in Developing a National Policy. 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

Krepstekies C (2010) News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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 (2002) Voice of Calm. New York Times 625

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holman 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Losick and Sonenshein 2001; Holman 2008).

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

Two authors: (Losick and Sonenshein 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hou et al. 2008)

About the journal

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