How to format your references using the Biota Neotropica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biota Neotropica. 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

RILEY, P. 2009. Journal club. A molecular cardiologist looks into getting to the heart of his inner fish. Nature 460(7259):1061.

A journal article with 2 authors

TZENG, S.-R. & KALODIMOS, C.G. 2012. Protein activity regulation by conformational entropy. Nature 488(7410):236–240.

A journal article with 3 authors

KINOSHITA, T., WENGER, T. & WEISS, D.S. 2004. Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science 305(5687):1125–1128.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

KOVAC, J.M., LEITCH, E.M., PRYKE, C., CARLSTROM, J.E., HALVERSON, N.W. & HOLZAPFEL, W.L. 2002. Detection of polarization in the cosmic microwave background using DASI. Degree Angular Scale Interferometer. Nature 420(6917):772–787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

BAGRINTSEVA, K.I. 2015. Carbonate Reservoir Rocks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

RIELE, K. te & GORUR, R., eds. 2015. Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

ZHAO, L.-J., TANG, J. & CHAI, T.-Y. 2012. Modeling Spectral Data Based on Mutual Information and Kernel Extreme Learning Machines. In Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012: 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I (J. Wang, G. G. Yen, & M. M. Polycarpou, eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p.29–36.

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 Biota Neotropica.

Blog post

ANDREWS, R. 2017. $500 Billion Scheme By Maverick Scientists Could Save The Arctic. 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. 1970. Further Improvement Needed in the Management of Magnetic Tapes by Goddard Space Flight Center.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

FOSTER, R.L. 2016. The Perceptions of Language Minority Parents Regarding Informed Consent in the Special Education Process. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

SHPIGEL, B. 2017. Its Sports Fandom Evolving, Atlanta Chases Football Glory. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Riley 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Riley 2009, Tzeng & Kalodimos 2012).

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

Two authors: (Tzeng & Kalodimos 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kovac et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biota Neotropica
ISSN (print)	1676-0603
ISSN (online)	1676-0611
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics