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

Trounson, A., 2009. Obituary: Xiangzhong (Jerry) Yang (1959-2009). Nature 458, 161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nilsen, T.W., Graveley, B.R., 2010. Expansion of the eukaryotic proteome by alternative splicing. Nature 463, 457–463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Euler, T., Detwiler, P.B., Denk, W., 2002. Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells. Nature 418, 845–852.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thomas, P.C., Veverka, J., Robinson, M.S., Murchie, S., 2001. Shoemaker crater as the source of most ejecta blocks on the asteroid 433 Eros. Nature 413, 394–396.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pilot, M.J., 2014. Driving Sustainability to Business Success. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Liu, Z., Wassyng, A. (Eds.), 2012. Foundations of Health Informatics Engineering and Systems: First International Symposium, FHIES 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 29-30, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

de Figueiredo, D.G., Gupta, C.P., 2013. On the Variational Method for the Existence of Solutions of Nonlinear Equations of Hammerstein Type, in: Costa, D.G. (Ed.), Djairo G. de Figueiredo - Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–41.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Dr. Oz Admits ‘Miracle’ Diet Products He Advocates Are Pseudoscience [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dr-oz-admits-‘miracle’-diet-products-he-advocates-are-pseudoscience/ (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, 2004. Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses (No. GAO-04-548). 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

Ennaco, W.A., 2014. Mastering morphosyntax: A pre-experimental study on the effectiveness of a parent-training program for preschoolaged children with specific language impairment (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gustines, G.G., Kepler, A.W., 2011. Not All Superheroes Are Equal (At Least the Second Time Around). New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trounson, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Nilsen and Graveley, 2010; Trounson, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Nilsen and Graveley, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Thomas et al., 2001)

About the journal

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