How to format your references using the The Botanical Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Botanical Review. 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

Buetow, K.H. 2005. Cyberinfrastructure: empowering a “third way” in biomedical research. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 821–824.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, J.P., Jr, & W.N. Zagotta. 2001. Rotational movement during cyclic nucleotide-gated channel opening. Nature 412: 917–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aizen, M.A., M. Sabatino, & J.M. Tylianakis. 2012. Specialization and rarity predict nonrandom loss of interactions from mutualist networks. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 1486–1489.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Kishida, H., H. Matsuzaki, H. Okamoto, T. Manabe, M. Yamashita, Y. Taguchi, & Y. Tokura. 2000. Gigantic optical nonlinearity in one-dimensional Mott-Hubbard insulators. Nature 405: 929–932.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell, A.K. 2014. Intracellular Calcium. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tsukahara, T., A. Pasqualin, G. Esposito, L. Regli, & G. Pinna (eds.). 2016. Trends in Cerebrovascular Surgery. IX, 200 p. 87 illus., 53 illus. in color p. (Vol. 123). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilbanks, T.J., & S. Fernandez. 2014. Urban Systems As Place-Based Foci For Infrastructure Interactions. Pp. 41–54. In: T.J. Wilbanks & S. Fernandez (eds.). Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics: Washington, DC,.

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 The Botanical Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015, October 30. How Minecraft Could Help Teach Chemistry’s Building Blocks Of Life. IFLScience. 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. 1979. Opportunities for Improving Program Planning for Photovoltaic Research and Development, No. EMD-79-40. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez, A.M. 2010. Moving in foster care: Voices of adults who experienced multiple foster care placements in childhood. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Feeney, K. 2011, February 27. Sip, Munch and Cheer. New York Times, p. NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buetow, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson & Zagotta, 2001; Buetow, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Johnson & Zagotta, 2001)
Three authors: (Aizen, Sabatino, & Tylianakis, 2012)
4 or more authors: (Kishida et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Botanical Review
ISSN (print)	0006-8101
ISSN (online)	1874-9372
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