How to format your references using the Alpine Botany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Alpine 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

Perkins K (2014) For the love of ferns. Science 346:1586

A journal article with 2 authors

van den Heuvel MGL, Dekker C (2007) Motor proteins at work for nanotechnology. Science 317:333–336

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell KJ, Cooper A, Phillips MJ (2015) Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds.” Science 349:1460

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fournier D, Estoup A, Orivel J, et al (2005) Clonal reproduction by males and females in the little fire ant. Nature 435:1230–1234

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wartenberg TE (2013) A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Murgante B, Gervasi O, Misra S, et al (eds) (2012) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012: 12th International Conference, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, June 18-21, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Johannes WJ, Smilde PL (2009) Qualitative Interpretation. In: Smilde PL (ed) Gravity Interpretation: Fundamentals and Application of Gravity Inversion and Geological Interpretation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 181–231

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 Alpine Botany.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) This Is The World’s Last Male Northern White Rhino. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-last-male-northern-white-rhino-has-armed-guards/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2007) USCIS Transformation: Improvements to Performance, Human Capital, and Information Technology Management Needed as Modernization Proceeds. 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

Patil AV (2017) Programming QR code scanner, communicating Android devices, and unit testing in fortified cards. 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

Crow K (2002) Claude Brown’s Harlem, Still on the Mind. New York Times 144

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perkins 2014).
This sentence cites two references (van den Heuvel and Dekker 2007; Perkins 2014).

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

Two authors: (van den Heuvel and Dekker 2007)
Three or more authors: (Fournier et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Alpine Botany
Abbreviation	Alp. Bot.
ISSN (print)	1664-2201
ISSN (online)	1664-221X
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science