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

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

Brown, R.H., Jr, 2008. Developmental biology. Neuron research leaps ahead. Science 321, 1169–1170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Armakolas, A., Klar, A.J.S., 2006. Cell type regulates selective segregation of mouse chromosome 7 DNA strands in mitosis. Science 311, 1146–1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spradling, A., Drummond-Barbosa, D., Kai, T., 2001. Stem cells find their niche. Nature 414, 98–104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brown, W.M., Cronk, L., Grochow, K., Jacobson, A., Liu, C.K., Popović, Z., Trivers, R., 2005. Dance reveals symmetry especially in young men. Nature 438, 1148–1150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Talbot, D.B., 2012. Frequency Acquisition Techniques for Phase Locked Loops. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vlodaver, Z., Wilson, R.F., Garry, D.J. (Eds.), 2012. Coronary Heart Disease: Clinical, Pathological, Imaging, and Molecular Profiles. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Maslouhi, M., Daher, R., 2010. Weyl’s Lemma and Converse Mean Value for Dunkl Operators, in: Schulze, B.-W., Wong, M.W. (Eds.), Pseudo-Differential Operators: Complex Analysis and Partial Differential Equations: International Workshop, York University, Canada, August 4–8, 2008. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 91–100.

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 Farmacognosia.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Genetically Modified Cows Show Increased Tuberculosis Resistance [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2011. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Needs to Ensure New Acquisition Strategy is Based on Sufficient Information (No. GAO-11-641). 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

Byeon, G., 2014. More than words: A comparative study of Liszt’s Liebesträume and the songs from which they were transcribed (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

Wagner, J., 2016. Mets’ Starter Fails to Last 2 Innings, and He May Not Get to Go Any Longer. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Armakolas and Klar, 2006; Brown, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Armakolas and Klar, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Brown et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia
Abbreviation	Rev. Bras. Farmacogn.
ISSN (print)	0102-695X
Scope	General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics