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

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

Padian, K., 2015. Palaeontology: Dinosaur up in the air. Nature 521, 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemingway, J., Craig, A., 2004. Parasitology. New ways to control malaria. Science 303, 1984–1985.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arce, S.H., Wu, P.-H., Tseng, Y., 2013. Fast and accurate automated cell boundary determination for fluorescence microscopy. Sci. Rep. 3, 2266.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, J., Kwok, T.Y., Li, X., Cao, W., Wang, Y., Huang, J., Hong, Y., Zhang, D., Wen, W., 2013. Mapping three-dimensional temperature in microfluidic chip. Sci. Rep. 3, 3321.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duchon, C., Hale, R., 2012. Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Almeida, R.M.S.F., 2015. School Buildings Rehabilitation: Indoor Environmental Quality and Enclosure Optimization, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodrigues, S., 2012. A Classroom Without Walls, in: France, B., Compton, V. (Eds.), Bringing Communities Together: Connecting Learners with Scientists or Technologists. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 61–72.

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 Farmacognosia.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017. Hubble Captures New View Of The Vermin Galaxy And A Protoplanetary Disk [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, 1988. ADP Modernization: IRS’ Tax System Redesign Progress and Plans for the Future (No. IMTEC-88-23BR). 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

Pearson, R.S., 2008. Relationship Banking in a Competitive Environment With and Without Information Sharing: The Importance of Credit Bureaus in Microfinance (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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., 2014. A Dominating Display at 14. 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 (Padian, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hemingway and Craig, 2004; Padian, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hemingway and Craig, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia
Abbreviation	Rev. Bras. Farmacogn.
ISSN (print)	0102-695X
Scope	General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics