How to format your references using the Revista Chilena de Historia Natural citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 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

Simmons JG (2010) Timeline: Lindau and the zeitgeist. Nature 467:S14-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Allmann S, Baldwin IT (2010) Insects betray themselves in nature to predators by rapid isomerization of green leaf volatiles. Science 329:1075–1078

A journal article with 3 authors

Kanai T, Minemoto S, Sakai H (2005) Quantum interference during high-order harmonic generation from aligned molecules. Nature 435:470–474

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sorefan K, Girin T, Liljegren SJ, et al (2009) A regulated auxin minimum is required for seed dispersal in Arabidopsis. Nature 459:583–586

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gu X, Jiang N, Ji K, et al (2017) Self-healing Control Technology for Distribution Networks. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Sasano T, Suzuki O (eds) (2010) Interface Oral Health Science 2009. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Kubíčková V (2016) Application of Survival Analysis on Analysing the Association Between Chromosomal Aberrations and Carcinoma. In: Bris R, Majernik J, Pancerz K, Zaitseva E (eds) Applications of Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 93–102

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 Chilena de Historia Natural.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) When Did Megalodon Disappear From The Oceans? 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 (1992) Household Goods Transport. 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

Woodard J (2012) Emergent properties. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Mueller B, Baker AL (2017) Police Officer Is ‘Murdered for Her Uniform’ at Post in the Bronx. 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 (Simmons 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Allmann and Baldwin 2010; Simmons 2010).

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

Two authors: (Allmann and Baldwin 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sorefan et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Chilena de Historia Natural
Abbreviation	Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat.
ISSN (online)	0717-6317
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Environmental Science