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

Kuhn M (2015) Cardiology: A big-hearted molecule. Nature 519:416–417

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodrigues AR, Tabin CJ (2013) Developmental biology. Deserts and waves in gene expression. Science 340:1181–1182

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang G, Jiang X, Wang E (2003) Tubular graphite cones. Science 300:472–474

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sercombe D, Schwarz S, Del Pozo-Zamudio O, et al (2013) Optical investigation of the natural electron doping in thin MoS2 films deposited on dielectric substrates. Sci Rep 3:3489

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasternak H, Hoch H-U, Füg D (2010) Stahltragwerke im Industriebau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Bertino E (2010) Security for Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hirai K (2016) The Peasants’ Dilemma: Finance and Fraud Problems in Purchasing Fertilizer in Taiwan (1910–1930s). In: Sawai M (ed) Economic Activities Under the Japanese Colonial Empire. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 115–136

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) The LHC Is Back And It’s Ready To Probe The Limits Of Matter. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/lhc-back-and-it-s-ready-probe-limits-matter/. 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 (1990) Railroad Safety: FRA’s Staffing Model Cannot Estimate Inspectors Needed for Safety Mission. 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

Nakano AM (2012) Community college swirlers and the transfer function. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Adkins M (2014) The Race to Beat ‘Best Before.’ New York Times MB3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kuhn 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rodrigues and Tabin 2013; Kuhn 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rodrigues and Tabin 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sercombe et al. 2013)

About the journal

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