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

Smaglik P (2005) Bricks and mortar. Scottish Structural Proteomics Facility, University of St Andrews, UK. Nature 433:666

A journal article with 2 authors

Lundeberg MB, Folk JA (2014) Physics. Harnessing chirality for valleytronics. Science 346:422–423

A journal article with 3 authors

Willbold M, Elliott T, Moorbath S (2011) The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth’s mantle before the terminal bombardment. Nature 477:195–198

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Valovka T, Schönfeld M, Raffeiner P, et al (2013) Transcriptional control of DNA replication licensing by Myc. Sci Rep 3:3444

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov BM (2011) Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Leal Filho W (ed) (2015) Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wang J, Xiong Z, Meng H, et al (2012) Synthetic Biology Triggers New Era of Antibiotics Development. In: Wang X, Chen J, Quinn P (eds) Reprogramming Microbial Metabolic Pathways. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 95–114

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

Hamilton K (2016) Just For You: How To Create Sounds That Only You Can Hear In A Venue. 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 (2004) Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Enforcement Activities. 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

Kramer KA (2010) System for Identifying Plankton from the SIPPER Instrument Platform. 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 (2003) A Prosperous Russian City Is Also Fatal for Journalists. New York Times A3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2005; Lundeberg and Folk 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lundeberg and Folk 2014)
Three or more authors: (Valovka et al. 2013)

About the journal

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