How to format your references using the Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society. 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

Buesseler K. O. (2012): Ecology. Fishing for answers off Fukushima. – Science 338: 480–482.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bauleo P. M. & Martino J. R. (2009): The dawn of the particle astronomy era in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. – Nature 458: 847–851.

A journal article with 3 authors

Margulies L., Winther G., & Poulsen H. F. (2001): In situ measurement of grain rotation during deformation of polycrystals. – Science 291: 2392–2394.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Navarro P., Chambers I., Karwacki-Neisius V., Chureau C., Morey C., Rougeulle C., & Avner P. (2008): Molecular coupling of Xist regulation and pluripotency. – Science 321: 1693–1695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Galwey N. W. (2014): Introduction to Mixed Modelling. – John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Moore T. & Shenoi S. (Eds). (2010): Critical Infrastructure Protection IV: Fourth Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, ICCIP 2010, Washington, DC, USA, March 15-17, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. – Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Surma J. (2010): Case Based Reasoning for Supporting Strategy Decision Making in Small and Medium Enterprises. In Montani S. & Jain L.C. (eds.), Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications - I, pp. 83–96. Studies in Computational Intelligence. – Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2015): Boa Constrictors Don’t Actually Suffocate Their Prey To Death After All. 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. (1996): Energy Research: Recovery of Federal Investment in Technology Development Projects. – 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

Colchero Dorado R. (2008): Recovering memory in Jordi Soler’s “Los rojos de ultramar.”

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

Kanter J. (2017): ‘Stupid Us’: U.S. Retirees and Fraud Tied to E.U. Commissioner. New York Times. A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buesseler 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bauleo & Martino 2009, Buesseler 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bauleo & Martino 2009)
Three or more authors: (Navarro et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society
Abbreviation	Preslia
ISSN (print)	0032-7786
Scope	Plant Science Ecology