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

Clapham, D.E., 2002. Signal transduction. Hot and cold TRP ion channels. Science 295, 2228–2229.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver, B.A.A., Cleveland, D.W., 2007. Comment on “A centrosome-independent role for gamma-TuRC proteins in the spindle assembly checkpoint.” Science 316, 982; author reply 982.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lehmann, S., Jackson, A.D., Lautrup, B.E., 2006. Measures for measures. Nature 444, 1003–1004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pocivavsek, L., Dellsy, R., Kern, A., Johnson, S., Lin, B., Lee, K.Y.C., Cerda, E., 2008. Stress and fold localization in thin elastic membranes. Science 320, 912–916.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Briffaut, J.-P., 2015. E-Enabled Operations Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hashim, H., Reynard, J., Cowan, N.C., Wood, D., Armenakas, N. (Eds.), 2013. Urological Emergencies In Clinical Practice, 2nd ed. 2013. ed. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Zegarra, J., Farcy, R., 2012. GPS and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as a Navigation System for the Visually Impaired, in: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (Eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 13th International Conference, ICCHP 2012, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 29–32.

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. Calories In, Calories Out – Obesity And The Energy Imbalance Gap [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, 1993. Transportation: Federal Assessments Levied on Commercial Maritime Industry (No. T-RCED-93-24). 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

Al azze, Q., 2014. Field-Oriented Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors Based on DSP Controller (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Ketcham, I.W., 1942. Feel of Child’s Hand Found Way to Restored Confidence. New York Times REVIEW OF THE WEEK EDITORIALSE7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clapham, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Clapham, 2002; Weaver and Cleveland, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Weaver and Cleveland, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Pocivavsek et al., 2008)

About the journal

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