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

Rensberger B. (2009): Science journalism: Too close for comfort. – Nature 459: 1055–1056.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olson E. L. & Allen R. M. (2005): The deterministic nature of earthquake rupture. – Nature 438: 212–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Averill C., Turner B. L., & Finzi A. C. (2014): Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage. – Nature 505: 543–545.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Suzuki H., Imura J.-I., Horio Y., & Aihara K. (2013): Chaotic Boltzmann machines. – Sci. Rep.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eicker U. (2005): Solar Technologies for Buildings. – John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kidokoro T., Harata N., Subanu L. P., Jessen J., Motte A., & Seltzer E. P. (Eds). (2008): Sustainable City Regions: Space, Place and Governance. – Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Bezerra E. A. & Lettnin D. V. (2014): Multiplexer and Demultiplexer. In Lettnin D.V. (ed.), Synthesizable VHDL Design for FPGAs, pp. 57–68. – Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Fang J. (2014): Ancient Campfire Conversations Strengthened Human Culture. 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. (1995): Highway Safety: Reliability and Validity of DOT Crash Tests. – 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

Stephens B. S. (2017): Understanding CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 Activation by CXC Chemokine Ligand 12.

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

Steel E. & MERCED M. J. de la. (2017): Discovery Closes In on Acquiring Scripps Networks as Viacom Exits Competition. New York Times. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rensberger 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Olson & Allen 2005, Rensberger 2009).

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

Two authors: (Olson & Allen 2005)
Three or more authors: (Suzuki et al. 2013)

About the journal

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