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

McDonough WF (2011) Geochemistry. Meteoritic clues point chromium toward Earth’s core. Science 331:1397–1398

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaramillo F, Destouni G (2015) Local flow regulation and irrigation raise global human water consumption and footprint. Science 350:1248–1251

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford RA, Dixon PM, Pechmann JH (2001) Ecology. Global amphibian population declines. Nature 412:499–500

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gong B, Zhao X, Pan Z, et al (2014) A visible metamaterial fabricated by self-assembly method. Sci Rep 4:4713

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelsey JE, Newport DJ, Nemeroff CB (2006) Principles of Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Šimko J (2014) Semantic Acquisition Games: Harnessing Manpower for Creating Semantics. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Reed CW (2010) The Chemistry and Physics of the Interface Region and Functionalization. In: Nelson JK (ed) Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 95–131

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) How Languages Evolved. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-indo-european-languages-may-have-evolved/. 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 (2003) Information Technology: FBI Needs an Enterprise Architecture to Guide Its Modernization Activities. 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

Peters B (2010) From Cybernetics to Cyber Networks: Norbert Wiener, the Soviet Internet, and the Cold War Dawn of Information Universalism. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Shpigel B (2017) Its Sports Fandom Evolving, Atlanta Chases Football Glory. 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 (McDonough 2011).
This sentence cites two references (McDonough 2011; Jaramillo and Destouni 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jaramillo and Destouni 2015)
Three or more authors: (Gong et al. 2014)

About the journal

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