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

HEDE K. 2014. Antibiotic resistance: An infectious arms race. Nature 509:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

FORD R & EH SPAFFORD. 2007. Computer science. Happy birthday, dear viruses. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317:210–211.

A journal article with 3 authors

ADAMS MD, M MCVEY & JJ SEKELSKY. 2003. Drosophila BLM in double-strand break repair by synthesis-dependent strand annealing. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299:265–267.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

AARTS M, Y LIU, L LIU, S BESSHOH, M ARUNDINE, JW GURD, et al. 2002. Treatment of ischemic brain damage by perturbing NMDA receptor- PSD-95 protein interactions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298:846–850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

LU J, X ZHAO & S YAMADA. 2016. Harmonic Balance Finite Element Method. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

BRAZIL M. 2015. Optimal Interconnection Trees in the Plane: Theory, Algorithms and Applications. P. in.: Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

MORTIMER EF & LOF AMARAL. 2014. Contributions of the Sociocultural Domain to Build a Conceptual Profile Model for Molecule and Molecular Structure. Pp. 103–114, in: Conceptual Profiles: A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts (EF Mortimer & CN El-Hani, eds.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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

ANDREWS R [online]. 2015. Morocco Will Have 24/7 Solar Power By 2017. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/morocco-will-have-247-solar-power-2017/> (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. 2003. Electronic Government: Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Office of Personnel Management’s Initiatives. 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

PUGH AN. 2010. Adoption is an option: A personal narrative. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

HUBBARD B. 2016. Syrian Forces Capture Refugee Camp, Tightening Siege of Rebels in Aleppo. New York Times:A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hede, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ford and Spafford, 2007; Hede, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ford and Spafford, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Aarts et al., 2002)

About the journal

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