How to format your references using the Revista Chilena de Historia Natural citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 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

Vahala KJ (2003) Optical microcavities. Nature 424:839–846

A journal article with 2 authors

Link CD, Saldi TK (2012) Development. Cell death by glutamine repeats? Science 335:926–927

A journal article with 3 authors

Gadalla MN, Abdel-Rahman M, Shamim A (2014) Design, optimization and fabrication of a 28.3 THz nano-rectenna for infrared detection and rectification. Sci Rep 4:4270

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bayne EH, Portoso M, Kagansky A, et al (2008) Splicing factors facilitate RNAi-directed silencing in fission yeast. Science 322:602–606

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen J, Savolainen T, Soininen J (2013) Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Speth P, Christoph M, Diekkrüger B (eds) (2010) Impacts of Global Change on the Hydrological Cycle in West and Northwest Africa. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Proudler G, Chen L, Dalton C (2014) TPM2 Requirements. In: Chen L, Dalton C (eds) Trusted Computing Platforms: TPM2.0 in Context. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 131–150

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 Chilena de Historia Natural.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Human-Pig ‘Chimeras’ May Provide Vital Transplant Organs, But They Raise Ethical Dilemmas. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/humanpig-chimeras-may-provide-vital-transplant-organs-but-they-raise-ethical-dilemmas/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) The Challenge of Data Sharing: Results of a GAO-Sponsored Symposium on Benefit and Loan Programs. 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

Harris SK (2017) Dissecting the Disappearing Act: Discussing the Dissipation of Black Male Role Models in Black Communities. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Moore KA (2007) Take Al Qaeda to Court. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vahala 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Vahala 2003; Link and Saldi 2012).

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

Two authors: (Link and Saldi 2012)
Three or more authors: (Bayne et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Chilena de Historia Natural
Abbreviation	Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat.
ISSN (online)	0717-6317
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Environmental Science