How to format your references using the Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society. 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

McDowell J. M. (2011): Plant science. Beleaguered immunity. – Science 334: 1354–1355.

A journal article with 2 authors

Utz M. & Landers J. (2010): Chemistry. Magnetic resonance and microfluidics. – Science 330: 1056–1058.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gasparini Z., Pol D., & Spalletti L. A. (2006): An unusual marine crocodyliform from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of Patagonia. – Science 311: 70–73.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tombola F., Pathak M. M., Gorostiza P., & Isacoff E. Y. (2007): The twisted ion-permeation pathway of a resting voltage-sensing domain. – Nature 445: 546–549.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hiltscher G., Mühlthaler W., & Smits J. (2003): Industrial Pigging Technology. – Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Azambuja J. R. (2014): Hybrid Fault Tolerance Techniques to Detect Transient Faults in Embedded Processors(F. Kastensmidt & J. Becker, Eds.). – Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Martens K. & Wolf K. D. (2009): Boomerangs and Trojan Horses: The Unintended Consequences of Internationalising Education Policy Through the EU and the OECD. In Amaral A., Neave G., Musselin C., & Maassen P. (eds.), European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research, pp. 81–107. Higher Education Dynamics. – Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2015): New Polio Cases In Ukraine And Mali Don’t Mean The Vaccine Is Failing. IFLScience.

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. (1999): Space Station: Cost to Operate After Assembly is Uncertain. – 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

Tan-atichat T. P. (2008): Behavior of VNC in high-latency environments and techniques for improvement.

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

Shear M. D. & Haberman M. (2017): In Interview, Bannon Contradicts Trump on North Korea, and Lashes Out at Rivals. New York Times. A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McDowell 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Utz & Landers 2010, McDowell 2011).

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

Two authors: (Utz & Landers 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tombola et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society
Abbreviation	Preslia
ISSN (print)	0032-7786
Scope	Plant Science Ecology