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

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

Vereecken, L. 2013. Chemistry. Lifting the veil on an old mystery. - Science 340: 154–155.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robles-De-La-Torre, G. and Hayward, V. 2001. Force can overcome object geometry in the perception of shape through active touch. - Nature 412: 445–448.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weiner, S., Sagi, I. and Addadi, L. 2005. Structural biology. Choosing the crystallization path less traveled. - Science 309: 1027–1028.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Boulanger, M. J., Chow, D.-C., Brevnova, E. E. and Garcia, K. C. 2003. Hexameric structure and assembly of the interleukin-6/IL-6 alpha-receptor/gp130 complex. - Science 300: 2101–2104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Purkis, S. and Klemas, V. 2011. Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change. - John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

2009. Genome Mapping and Genomics in Domestic Animals (NE Cockett and C Kole, Eds.). - Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Weidner, N., O’Brien, K. E. and Wynne, K. T. 2016. Social Media Use: Antecedents and Outcomes of Sharing. - In: Landers, R. N. and Schmidt, G. B. (eds), Social Media in Employee Selection and Recruitment: Theory, Practice, and Current Challenges. Springer International Publishing, pp. 79–101.

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 Nordic Journal of Botany.

Blog post

Taub, B. 2016. These Are The Organizations That Can Now View Your Browser History Under New Security Laws. - IFLScience

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 2015. Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in NOAA’s Mitigation Strategies as It Prepares for Potential Satellite Coverage Gaps.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fox, R. N. 2009. Interpreting architecture: A Krauszian approach.

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

Gorman, J. 2017. The Power of the Bumblebee Brain. - New York Times: D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vereecken 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Robles-De-La-Torre and Hayward 2001, Vereecken 2013).

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

Two authors: (Robles-De-La-Torre and Hayward 2001)
Three or more authors: (Boulanger et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nordic Journal of Botany
Abbreviation	Nord. J. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0107-055X
ISSN (online)	1756-1051
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science