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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

PERRIN, S. 2014. Preclinical research: Make mouse studies work. Nature 507(7493):423–425.

A journal article with 2 authors

YUAN, J. & POULIN, P. 2014. Materials science. Fibers do the twist. Science 343(6173):845–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

TAGUCHI, A., WARTSCHOW, L.M. & WHITE, M.F. 2007. Brain IRS2 signaling coordinates life span and nutrient homeostasis. Science 317(5836):369–372.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

GUO, H., MOCKLER, T., DUONG, H. & LIN, C. 2001. SUB1, an Arabidopsis Ca2+-binding protein involved in cryptochrome and phytochrome coaction. Science 291(5503):487–490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CCPS. 2006. Safe Design and Operation of Process Vents and Emission Control Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

KRÓL, D., MADEYSKI, L. & NGUYEN, N.T., eds. 2016. Recent Developments in Intelligent Information and Database Systems. 1st ed. 2016 ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

LONE, S.A., MALIK, A. & PADARIA, J.C. 2014. Applications of Bacillus thuringiensis for Prevention of Environmental Deterioration. In Environmental Deterioration and Human Health: Natural and anthropogenic determinants (A. Malik, E. Grohmann, & R. Akhtar, eds) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p.73–95.

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

CARPINETI, A. 2016. Full “Rebirth” Of A Star Observed For The First Time. 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. 2012. Passenger Rail Security: Consistent Incident Reporting and Analysis Needed to Achieve Program Objectives.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

PARSONS, A.T. 2010. Metal-catalyzed annulations of strained cycloalkanes. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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. Race-Fixing Let Musician Reach Sochi, Ski Group Says. New York Times D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perrin 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Perrin 2014, Yuan & Poulin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yuan & Poulin 2014)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al. 2001)

About the journal

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