How to format your references using the Neotropical Entomology citation style

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

Lindenberger U (2014) Human cognitive aging: corriger la fortune? Science 346:572–578

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang F, Zhou Z (2004) Palaeontology: leg feathers in an Early Cretaceous bird. Nature 431:925

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh SK, Yamashita A, Gouaux E (2007) Antidepressant binding site in a bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter transporters. Nature 448:952–956

A journal article with 5 or more authors

He Y, Ye T, Su M, et al (2008) Hierarchical self-assembly of DNA into symmetric supramolecular polyhedra. Nature 452:198–201

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martin JE (2013) Physics for Radiation Protection. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Golash D (ed) (2010) Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Keith SA, Waller MS, Geissmann T (2009) Vocal Diversity of Kloss’s Gibbons (Hylobates Klossii) in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. In: Whittaker D, Lappan S (eds) The Gibbons: New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology. Springer, New York, NY, pp 51–71

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 Neotropical Entomology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Environmentally Friendly Silver Nanoparticles Could Fight Microbes. In: IFLScience. 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 (2000) Telecommunications: Issues Related to Local Telephone Service. 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

Roache RS (2015) Missouri Public School Teachers’ Perception of Tenure. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Witz B, Wagner J (2016) Shortening of Games Re-Enters G.M. Talks. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lindenberger 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Zhang and Zhou 2004; Lindenberger 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Zhou 2004)
Three or more authors: (He et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neotropical Entomology
Abbreviation	Neotrop. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	1519-566X
ISSN (online)	1678-8052
Scope	Insect Science