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 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

Evans R (2012) Wylie Walker Vale Jr (1941-2012). Nature 483:542

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith MR, Caron J-B (2015) Hallucigenia’s head and the pharyngeal armature of early ecdysozoans. Nature 523:75–78

A journal article with 3 authors

Murdoch W, Briggs CJ, Swarbrick S (2005) Host suppression and stability in a parasitoid-host system: experimental demonstration. Science 309:610–613

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen MJ, Yokomizo T, Zeigler BM, et al (2009) Runx1 is required for the endothelial to haematopoietic cell transition but not thereafter. Nature 457:887–891

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo M (2014) Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 2. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Fekete SP (ed) (2008) Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks: Fourth International Workshop, ALGOSENSORS 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2008. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fukino N, Kawazu Y (2016) DNA Markers in Cucurbitaceae Breeding. In: Ezura H, Ariizumi T, Garcia-Mas J, Rose J (eds) Functional Genomics and Biotechnology in Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae Crops. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–74

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

Davis J (2015) Structures In Fossil Dinosaurs Confirmed To Be Animal Pigments. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/structures-fossil-dinosaurs-confirmed-be-animal-pigments/. 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) Federal Research: Concerns About the Superconducting Super Collider. 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

Duberstein JN (2010) The shape of the commons: Social networks and the conservation of small-scale fisheries in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Dominus S (2015) Refusing My Religion. New York Times BR10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Evans 2012; Smith and Caron 2015).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Caron 2015)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2009)

About the journal

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