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

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

Smaglik P (2004) The secrets of success. Nature 432:253

A journal article with 2 authors

Caputo JM, Collins SH (2014) Prosthetic ankle push-off work reduces metabolic rate but not collision work in non-amputee walking. Sci Rep 4:7213

A journal article with 3 authors

Mugnier MR, Cross GAM, Papavasiliou FN (2015) The in vivo dynamics of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei. Science 347:1470–1473

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Niewoehner WA, Bergstrom A, Eichele D, et al (2003) Digital analysis: Manual dexterity in Neanderthals. Nature 422:395

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robertson B, Vignaux GA, Berger CEH (2016) Interpreting Evidence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pancel L, Köhl M (eds) (2016) Tropical Forestry Handbook, 2nd ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mobarek A, Mollah S (2016) Determinants of Market Co-Movement in Developed and Emerging Markets. In: Mollah S (ed) Global Stock Market Integration: Co-Movement, Crises, and Efficiency in Developed and Emerging Markets. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 99–113

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 Brazilian Journal of Botany.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Ceres’ Mystery Spots Are Even Stranger Than We Thought. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ceres-two-mystery-spots-are-not-same/. 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 (2004) Job Access and Reverse Commute: Program Status and Potential Effects of Proposed Legislative Changes. 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

Priddy JD-J (2014) As Tufa to Sapphire: Gendering the Roles of Medieval Women in Combat. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Robbins J, Sulzberger AG (2009) Onboard Device Could Offer Clue to Montana Crash. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Caputo and Collins 2014).

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

Two authors: (Caputo and Collins 2014)
Three or more authors: (Niewoehner et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brazilian Journal of Botany
Abbreviation	Rev. Bras. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0100-8404
ISSN (online)	1806-9959
Scope