How to format your references using the Annals of Botany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of 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	Download the output style file
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

Wuebbles DJ. 2009. Atmosphere. Nitrous oxide: no laughing matter. Science (New York, N.Y.) 326: 56–57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simmons EM, Hartwig JF. 2012. Catalytic functionalization of unactivated primary C-H bonds directed by an alcohol. Nature 483: 70–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Contreras M, Ceric F, Torrealba F. 2007. Inactivation of the interoceptive insula disrupts drug craving and malaise induced by lithium. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 655–658.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Parfitt SA, Ashton NM, Lewis SG, et al. 2010. Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe. Nature 466: 229–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhmer E. 2015. Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hatfield DL, Schweizer U, Tsuji PA, Gladyshev VN (Eds.). 2016. Selenium: Its Molecular Biology and Role in Human Health. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaushik BK, Majumder MK. 2015. Crosstalk and Delay Analysis In: Majumder MK, ed. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Carbon Nanotube Based VLSI Interconnects: Analysis and Design. New Delhi: Springer India, 57–68.

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 Annals of Botany.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015. New Drug Could Protect Against Some Aspects Of Radiation Sickness. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-drug-could-potentially-protect-against-some-aspects-radiation-sickness/. 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. 1994. [Comments on DOD Data Center Consolidation Plan]. 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

Abuzainab N. 2013. Energy and security aspects of wireless networks: Performance and tradeoffs.

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

Sisario B. 2016. ‘We Shall Overcome’ Moves Closer to Copyright Trial. New York Times: B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wuebbles 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Wuebbles 2009; Simmons and Hartwig 2012).

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

Two authors: (Simmons and Hartwig 2012)
Three or more authors: (Parfitt et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Botany
Abbreviation	Ann. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0305-7364
ISSN (online)	1095-8290
Scope	Plant Science