How to format your references using the Revista Brasileira de Entomologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 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

Khalil, A.M., 2009. Journal club. A geneticist views two theories of X-chromosome inactivation in a broad context. Nature 458, 263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ito, T., Simons, M., 2011. Probing asthenospheric density, temperature, and elastic moduli below the western United States. Science 332, 947–951.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richard, D., Clanet, C., Quéré, D., 2002. Contact time of a bouncing drop. Nature 417, 811.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vigny, C., Socquet, A., Peyrat, S., Ruegg, J.-C., Métois, M., Madariaga, R., Morvan, S., Lancieri, M., Lacassin, R., Campos, J., Carrizo, D., Bejar-Pizarro, M., Barrientos, S., Armijo, R., Aranda, C., Valderas-Bermejo, M.-C., Ortega, I., Bondoux, F., Baize, S., Lyon-Caen, H., Pavez, A., Vilotte, J.P., Bevis, M., Brooks, B., Smalley, R., Parra, H., Baez, J.-C., Blanco, M., Cimbaro, S., Kendrick, E., 2011. The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule megathrust earthquake of Central Chile, monitored by GPS. Science 332, 1417–1421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schaik, C.P.V., 2015. The Primate Origins of Human Nature. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fernández de Cañete, J., 2011. System Engineering and Automation: An Interactive Educational Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Nordin, D., Hakimzadeh, D., Melançon, B., 2011. There’s a Module for That, in: Luisi, J., Négyesi, K., Anderson, G., Somers, B., Corlosquet, S., Freudenberg, S., Lauer, M., Carlevale, E., Lorétan, F., Nordin, D., Szrama, R., Stewart, S., Strawn, J., Travis, B., Hakimzadeh, D., Scavarda, A., Albala, A., Micka, A., Douglass, R., Monks, R., Scholten, R., Wolanin, P., Valkenburgh, K.V., Stout, G., Dolin, K.Q., Gifford, M., Sarahe, C., Boyer, S., Mars, F., Cassie, G., Ryan, M., Catchpole, N., Gaskin, D. (Eds.), The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 87–108.

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 Revista Brasileira de Entomologia.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017. Learn How To Manage What Facebook And Twitter Know About You [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/learn-how-to-manage-what-facebook-and-twitter-know-about-you/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. College Tuition and Fees: Changes in the 1995-96 to 1999-2000 Period Compared With Median Household Income (No. HEHS-00-198R). 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

Salie, A., 2008. Servant-minded leadership and work satisfaction in Islamic organizations: A correlational mixed study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Koblin, J., 2017. Apple’s First Big TV Move: A Spielberg Series Reboot. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Khalil, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ito and Simons, 2011; Khalil, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ito and Simons, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Vigny et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
Abbreviation	Rev. Bras. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0085-5626
Scope	Insect Science