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

Macilwain, C. 2015. Rejection of GM crops is not a failure for science. - Nature 525: 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding, H.-M. and Ma, Y.-Q. 2013. Controlling cellular uptake of nanoparticles with pH-sensitive polymers. - Sci. Rep. 3: 2804.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore, S. D., McGinness, K. E. and Sauer, R. T. 2003. Structural biology. A glimpse into tmRNA-mediated ribosome rescue. - Science 300: 72–73.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Alvarez, J. I., Dodelet-Devillers, A., Kebir, H., Ifergan, I., Fabre, P. J., Terouz, S., Sabbagh, M., Wosik, K., Bourbonnière, L., Bernard, M., van Horssen, J., de Vries, H. E., Charron, F. and Prat, A. 2011. The Hedgehog pathway promotes blood-brain barrier integrity and CNS immune quiescence. - Science 334: 1727–1731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kyan, M., Muneesawang, P., Jarrah, K. and Guan, L. 2014. Unsupervised Learning. - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

2010. Macromolecular Anticancer Therapeutics (LH Reddy and P Couvreur, Eds.). - Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirz, M., Dietrich, W., Gfrerrer, A. and Lang, J. 2013. Modeling Techniques in CAD. - In: Dietrich, W. et al. (eds), Integrated Computer-Aided Design in Automotive Development: Development Processes, Geometric Fundamentals, Methods of CAD, Knowledge-Based Engineering Data Management. Springer, pp. 241–308.

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

Andrew, E. 2015. The Mathematics Of Pixar Movies. - 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 1992. Stafford Student Loan Program: Correspondence Schools’ Loan Volume Declines Sharply.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Connell, A. M. 2008. Customer retention and leadership in the nonprofit healthcare organization.

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

Kovaleski, S. F. 2015. Comic Says<br />His Story <br />About 9/11<br />Was a Lie. - New York Times: C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ding and Ma 2013, Macilwain 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ding and Ma 2013)
Three or more authors: (Alvarez et al. 2011)

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