How to format your references using the Australian Journal of Botany citation style

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

Smaglik P (2002) Another British invasion? Nature 420(6916), 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyons JR, Young ED (2005) CO self-shielding as the origin of oxygen isotope anomalies in the early solar nebula. Nature 435(7040), 317–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rompolas P, Mesa KR, Greco V (2013) Spatial organization within a niche as a determinant of stem-cell fate. Nature 502(7472), 513–518.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aoki SK, Pamma R, Hernday AD, Bickham JE, Braaten BA, Low DA (2005) Contact-dependent inhibition of growth in Escherichia coli. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5738), 1245–1248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Werner M (2015) ‘Global Displacements’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK).

An edited book

Chessa S, Knauth S (Eds) (2013) ‘Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking: International Competitions and Final Workshop, EvAAL 2012, July and September 2012. Revised Selected Papers’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Hull E, Jackson K, Dick J (2011) Requirements Engineering in the Problem Domain. In ‘Requirements Engineering.’ (Eds K Jackson, J Dick) pp. 93–114. (Springer: London)

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 Australian Journal of Botany.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Apple Car Will Be Really Different … If It Exists. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/technology/apple-car-will-be-really-different-if-it-exists/ [accessed 30 October 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 (2014) Unmanned Aerial Systems: Efforts Made toward Integration into the National Airspace Continue, but Many Actions Still Required. GAO-15-254T. 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

Ellis GS (2012) Compound-Specific Stable Isotopic Analysis of Protein Amino Acids: Ecological Applications in Modern and Ancient Systems. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Stubbs J, Reyes R (2016) Don’t Waste Your Vote. Trade It. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Lyons and Young 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lyons and Young 2005)
Three or more authors: (Aoki et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of Botany
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0067-1924
ISSN (online)	1444-9862
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science