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

Lippard SJ (2002) Chemical synthesis: the art of chemistry. Nature 416:587

A journal article with 2 authors

Takano Y, Ukezono M (2014) An experimental task to examine the mirror system in rats. Sci Rep 4:6652

A journal article with 3 authors

Weisz C, Glowatzki E, Fuchs P (2009) The postsynaptic function of type II cochlear afferents. Nature 461:1126–1129

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bhowmick NA, Chytil A, Plieth D, et al (2004) TGF-beta signaling in fibroblasts modulates the oncogenic potential of adjacent epithelia. Science 303:848–851

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigby KA (2013) Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yahav E (ed) (2011) Static Analysis: 18th International Symposium, SAS 2011, Venice, Italy, September 14-16, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Esteves Verssimo P, Baldoni R, Bortnikov V, et al (2012) CoMiFin Architecture and Semantic Rooms. In: Baldoni R, Chockler G (eds) Collaborative Financial Infrastructure Protection: Tools, Abstractions, and Middleware. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 85–98

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

Fang J (2014) Monkeys Use Researchers as Human Shields. 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 (2017) Discretionary Grants: Education Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Grants Monitoring. 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

Peterson C (2008) Psycho-socio-cultural risk factors for breech presentation. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Stewart JB (2016) Trump, the Tax Code and a Loophole for the Rich. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lippard 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lippard 2002; Takano and Ukezono 2014).

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

Two authors: (Takano and Ukezono 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bhowmick et al. 2004)

About the journal

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