How to format your references using the Mastozoologia Neotropical citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mastozoologia Neotropical. 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

SAREWITZ D. 2012. Blue-sky bias should be brought down to Earth. Nature 481:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

HOELLER D & I DIKIC. 2009. Targeting the ubiquitin system in cancer therapy. Nature 458:438–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

WERFEL J, K PETERSEN & R NAGPAL. 2014. Designing collective behavior in a termite-inspired robot construction team. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343:754–758.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

KÖHLER R, A TREDICUCCI, F BELTRAM, HE BEERE, EH LINFIELD, AG DAVIES, et al. 2002. Terahertz semiconductor-heterostructure laser. Nature 417:156–159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

WALKER C & B FINCHAM. 2011. Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

TROCCOLI A (ed.). 2010. Management of Weather and Climate Risk in the Energy Industry. P. in.: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

GUCCIO C, MF MARTORANA, I MAZZA & I RIZZO. 2016. Technology and Public Access to Cultural Heritage: The Italian Experience on ICT for Public Historical Archives. Pp. 55–75, in: Cultural Heritage in a Changing World (KJ Borowiecki, N Forbes & A Fresa, eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Mastozoologia Neotropical.

Blog post

DAVIS J [online]. 2016. 100-Million-Year-Old Relationship May Soon Be Driven To Extinction. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/100-million-year-old-relationship-may-soon-be-driven-extinction/> (30 October 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. 1988. Issues Related to an Independent FAA. 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

GUILLORY MK. 2017. An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in the State of Tennessee. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

CROW K. 2001. Pool or Gym? A Task Force Chooses Both. New York Times:146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hoeller and Dikic, 2009; Sarewitz, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hoeller and Dikic, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Köhler et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mastozoologia Neotropical
Abbreviation	Mastozool. Neotrop.
ISSN (print)	0327-9383
ISSN (online)	1666-0536
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