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

Wicherts JM (2011) Psychology must learn a lesson from fraud case. Nature 480:7

A journal article with 2 authors

Roe GH, Baker MB (2007) Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable? Science 318:629–632

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi H, Nakatsuji N, Suemori H (2014) Endodermal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to insulin-producing cells in 3D culture. Sci Rep 4:4488

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Alexopoulou L, Holt AC, Medzhitov R, Flavell RA (2001) Recognition of double-stranded RNA and activation of NF-kappaB by Toll-like receptor 3. Nature 413:732–738

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacRoberts (2014) MacRoberts on Scottish Construction Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Calude CS, Kari J, Petre I, Rozenberg G (eds) (2011) Unconventional Computation: 10th International Conference, UC 2011, Turku, Finland, June 6-10, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fernandez-Breis JT, Iannone L, Palmisano I, et al (2010) Enriching the Gene Ontology via the Dissection of Labels Using the Ontology Pre-processor Language. In: Cimiano P, Pinto HS (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses: 17th International Conference, EKAW 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-15, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–73

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

Andrew E (2015) Lexus Have Seriously Built A Working Hoverboard. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/heres-lexus-hoverboard-finally-action/. 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 (2011) Postsecondary Education: Student Outcomes Vary at For-Profit, Nonprofit, and Public Schools. 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

Urquidi AJ (2015) Condolences to all of you: Late eulogies of a half-complacent birthday boy. 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wicherts 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Roe and Baker 2007; Wicherts 2011).

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

Two authors: (Roe and Baker 2007)
Three or more authors: (Alexopoulou et al. 2001)

About the journal

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