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

Rubinsztein, D.C., 2015. Cell biology: Receptors for selective recycling. Nature 522, 291–292.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhalerao, S., Clandinin, T.R., 2012. Cell biology. Vitamin K2 takes charge. Science 336, 1241–1242.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ruby, E., Henderson, B., McFall-Ngai, M., 2004. Microbiology. We get by with a little help from our (little) friends. Science 303, 1305–1307.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koch, P., Breuer, P., Peitz, M., Jungverdorben, J., Kesavan, J., Poppe, D., Doerr, J., Ladewig, J., Mertens, J., Tüting, T., Hoffmann, P., Klockgether, T., Evert, B.O., Wüllner, U., Brüstle, O., 2011. Excitation-induced ataxin-3 aggregation in neurons from patients with Machado-Joseph disease. Nature 480, 543–546.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacGowan, C., 2011. The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Jiang, W.G. (Ed.), 2012. Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing and Cancer Metastasis, Cancer Metastasis - Biology and Treatment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Michail, S., Ng, M.-W., 2013. Inflammation, Microflora, Motility, and Visceral Sensitivity, in: Faure, C., Di Lorenzo, C., Thapar, N. (Eds.), Pediatric Neurogastroenterology: Gastrointestinal Motility and Functional Disorders in Children. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 49–58.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. NASA Chief Suggests The U.S. May Start Working With China In Space [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-chief-suggests-us-may-start-working-china-space/ (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, 1978. Opportunities To Fully Integrate Environmental Research and Development into Developing Energy Technologies (No. EMD-78-43). 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

Timko, E.J., 2017. Polynomial Tuples of Commuting Isometries Constrained by 1-Dimensional Varieties (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Levine, M.D., Brosnahan, M., 2015. The Homelessness Cure. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rubinsztein, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bhalerao and Clandinin, 2012; Rubinsztein, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bhalerao and Clandinin, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Koch et al., 2011)

About the journal

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