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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Zubelewicz, A. 2013. Liquid-liquid-solid transition in viscoelastic liquids. - Sci. Rep. 3: 1323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, G. M. and Oshima, J. 2000. Lessons from human progeroid syndromes. - Nature 408: 263–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conrad, C. P., Steinberger, B. and Torsvik, T. H. 2013. Conrad et al. reply. - Nature 503: E4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, H., Wang, Y., Wang, Q., Li, J., Yang, S. and Zhu, Z. 2014. Bifunctional organic polymeric catalysts with a tunable acid-base distance and framework flexibility. - Sci. Rep. 4: 6475.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rounds, J. and Segner, R. 2011. Construction Supervision. - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kaiser, S. 2011. Strategic Management of Professional Service Firms: Theory and Practice (MJ Ringlstetter, Ed.). - Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dasiopoulou, S., Saathoff, C., Mylonas, P., Avrithis, Y., Kompatsiaris, Y., Staab, S. and Strinztis, M. G. 2008. Introducing Context and Reasoning in Visual Content Analysis: An Ontology-Based Framework. - In: Kompatsiaris, Y. and Hobson, P. (eds), Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications. Springer, pp. 99–122.

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. Quantum Computer Makes Finding New Physics More Difficult. - 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 1993. High-Speed Ground Transportation: Issues Affecting Development in the United States.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herrlich, A. 2010. Transparency and medical interventions in vital statistics reports: Quantitative research and analysis.

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

Pilon, M. 2012. Before Games, Religious Questions. - New York Times: D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zubelewicz 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Martin and Oshima 2000, Zubelewicz 2013).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Oshima 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

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