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

SCHIERMEIER Q. 2001. Imported stem cells deepen Germany’s ethical divide. Nature 412:4.

A journal article with 2 authors

MOORE KA & IR LEMISCHKA. 2006. Stem cells and their niches. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311:1880–1885.

A journal article with 3 authors

ROHR RP, S SAAVEDRA & J BASCOMPTE. 2014. Ecological networks. On the structural stability of mutualistic systems. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345:1253497.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

AVDOSHENKO SM, P KOSKINEN, H SEVINÇLI, AA POPOV & CG ROCHA. 2013. Topological signatures in the electronic structure of graphene spirals. Scientific reports 3:1632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

BOBROW J, E KOHN, J MONDRAGON-GILMORE & J EGGENSCHWILER. 2009. CliffsNotes® Praxis I®: PPST®. P. in.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

PARROCHIA D. 2013. Towards a General Theory of Classifications. P. in.: Springer, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

SHELTON EJ. 2013. Narrative Frameworks of Consideration: Horizontal and Vertical Approaches to Conceptualizing the Sub-Antarctic. Pp. 51–66, in: New Issues in Polar Tourism: Communities, Environments, Politics (DK Müller, L Lundmark & RH Lemelin, 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]. 2016. Study Links Alcohol To Seven Types Of Cancer. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-links-alcohol-to-seven-types-of-cancer/> (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. 2011. Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Federal Teacher Quality Programs. 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

BEAVEN L. 2014. Epiphanies of soul: “When the bolts of the universe fly open.” A depth psychological contemplation of wonder. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

BUCKLEY C. 2013. In the Shadow of Towers. New York Times:A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier, 2001; Moore and Lemischka, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Lemischka, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Avdoshenko et al., 2013)

About the journal

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