How to format your references using the Acta Botanica Gallica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Botanica Gallica. 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

Hens, Zeger. 2015. “NANOMATERIALS. Economical Routes to Colloidal Nanocrystals.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6240): 1211–1212.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benedito, Rui, and Ralf H. Adams. 2009. “Development. Aorta’s Cardinal Secret.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5950): 242–243.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winston, William M., Christina Molodowitch, and Craig P. Hunter. 2002. “Systemic RNAi in C. Elegans Requires the Putative Transmembrane Protein SID-1.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5564): 2456–2459.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Penna, Aubin, Angelo Demuro, Andriy V. Yeromin, Shenyuan L. Zhang, Olga Safrina, Ian Parker, and Michael D. Cahalan. 2008. “The CRAC Channel Consists of a Tetramer Formed by Stim-Induced Dimerization of Orai Dimers.” Nature 456 (7218): 116–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Fleet, Patrick J. 2008. Discrete Wavelet Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gdoutos, E. E., ed. 2006. Fracture of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference of Fracture, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 3–7, 2006. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Errami, E., M. Brocx, V. Semeniuk, and N. Ennih. 2015. “Geosites, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, and Potential Geoparks in the Anti-Atlas (Morocco).” In From Geoheritage to Geoparks: Case Studies from Africa and Beyond, edited by Ezzoura Errami, Margaret Brocx, and Vic Semeniuk, 57–79. Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Acta Botanica Gallica.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “How To Build The World’s Fastest Car.” IFLScience, IFLScience, September 25. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-build-world-s-fastest-car/.

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. 2006. Highlights of a GAO Forum: Managing the Supplier Base in the 21st Century. GAO-06-533SP. 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

Batson, Grace. 2008. “Head Start and at -Risk Students: Perceptions of Administrators, Practitioners, and Parents.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

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

Healy, Jack, and Serge F. Kovaleski. 2014. “One Mother, 7 Dead Newborns and a Stunned Community in Utah.” New York Times, April 27, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hens 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hens 2015; Benedito and Adams 2009).

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

Two authors: (Benedito and Adams 2009)
Three authors: (Winston, Molodowitch, and Hunter 2002)
4 or more authors: (Penna et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Botanica Gallica
Abbreviation	Acta Bot. Gallica
ISSN (print)	1253-8078
ISSN (online)	2166-3408
Scope	Plant Science