How to format your references using the Revista Brasileira de Entomologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 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

Winnacker, E.-L., 2002. European science. Science 295, 446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bose, S.K., Marder, T.B., 2015. ORGANIC CATALYSIS. A leap ahead for activating C-H bonds. Science 349, 473–474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamashita, Y.M., Jones, D.L., Fuller, M.T., 2003. Orientation of asymmetric stem cell division by the APC tumor suppressor and centrosome. Science 301, 1547–1550.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McWatters, H.G., Bastow, R.M., Hall, A., Millar, A.J., 2000. The ELF3 zeitnehmer regulates light signalling to the circadian clock. Nature 408, 716–720.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaffe, J., 2010. Flip the Funnel. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Klingebiel, S., 2016. Public Sector Performance and Development Cooperation in Rwanda: Results-Based Approaches. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Borsdorf, A., Stadel, C., 2015. The Cultural Development of the Andes, in: Stadel, C. (Ed.), The Andes: A Geographical Portrait, Springer Geography. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 99–131.

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 Revista Brasileira de Entomologia.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. How the Jesus Lizard Evolved [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Educational Testing: The Canadian Experience With Standards, Examinations, and Assessments (No. PEMD-93-11). 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

Stuehling, A.L., 2017. “We Speak ‘Hola’ In School”: A Case Study of Global Education in a Partial-Immersion Spanish Preschool (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2005. A Ceremonial Start to the Session as the Supreme Court Welcomes a New Chief Justice. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winnacker, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bose and Marder, 2015; Winnacker, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bose and Marder, 2015)
Three or more authors: (McWatters et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
Abbreviation	Rev. Bras. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0085-5626
Scope	Insect Science