How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology. 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

Stierle A (2008) Materials science. Tracking corrosion cracking. Science 321:349–350

A journal article with 2 authors

Siomi H, Siomi MC (2015) RNA. Phased piRNAs tackle transposons. Science 348:756–757

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto S, Furlan RLE, Sanders JKM (2002) Selection and amplification of hosts from dynamic combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic disulfides. Science 297:590–593

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fang AF, Xu G, Dong T, et al (2013) Structural phase transition in IrTe₂: a combined study of optical spectroscopy and band structure calculations. Sci Rep 3:1153

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid G (2011) Dyslexia. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Eibl R (2009) Cell and Tissue Reaction Engineering: With a Contribution by Martin Fussenegger and Wilfried Weber. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Crowder JA, Friess S (2015) Productivity Tools for the Modern Team. In: Friess S (ed) Agile Project Management: Managing for Success. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 43–48

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) How Antarctica Became Frozen. In: IFLScience. 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 (1977) Federal Agencies’ Contracting for Research and Development in the Private, Profitmaking Sector. 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

Landry C (2017) A Phenomenological Investigation of the Factors that Influence Motivation, Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers Age 65 and Over. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Pilon M (2012) Slugger’s Penalty Includes a Walk Through History. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stierle 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Stierle 2008; Siomi and Siomi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Siomi and Siomi 2015)
Three or more authors: (Fang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Braz. J. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (online)	2196-288X
Scope