How to format your references using the Australian Systematic Botany citation style

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

Patek SN (2014) Materials science. Biomimetics and evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6203), 1448–1449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Touma JR, Sridhar S (2015) The disruption of multiplanet systems through resonance with a binary orbit. Nature 524(7566), 439–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoukis NC, Hall B, Geib SM (2014) A computer model of insect traps in a landscape. Scientific reports 4, 7015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yuan Q, Song G, Sun D, Ding F (2014) Formation of graphene grain boundaries on Cu(100) surface and a route towards their elimination in chemical vapor deposition growth. Scientific reports 4, 6541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lemma A (2008) ‘Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: West Sussex, England).

An edited book

Rijlaarsdam G, Bergh H van D, Couzijn M (Eds) (2005) ‘Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing: A Handbook of Writing in Education.’ Second Edition. (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht).

A chapter in an edited book

Manzon M (2014) Comparing Places. In ‘Comparative Education Research: Approaches and Methods.’ (Eds M Bray, B Adamson, M Mason) pp. 97–137. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

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 Systematic Botany.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Solar Fuels: How Planes And Cars Could Be Powered By The Sun. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-fuels-how-planes-and-cars-could-be-powered-sun/ [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 (1991) Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 5. 144236. 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

Farhad K (2015) Development of a web-based educational resource on the most effective micronutrients in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Ember S, Bowley G (2017) First Trial In Cosby Case Is a Guide For the 2nd. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patek 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Patek 2014; Touma and Sridhar 2015).

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

Two authors: (Touma and Sridhar 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yuan et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Systematic Botany
Abbreviation	Aust. Syst. Bot.
ISSN (print)	1030-1887
ISSN (online)	1446-5701
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science