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

Premack D (2004) Psychology. Is language the key to human intelligence? Science 303:318–320

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson E, Marone C (2008) Geophysics. What triggers tremor? Science 319:166–167

A journal article with 3 authors

Wyckoff GJ, Wang W, Wu CI (2000) Rapid evolution of male reproductive genes in the descent of man. Nature 403:304–309

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhou J, Jia W, Huang C-B, Hess RF (2013) The effect of unilateral mean luminance on binocular combination in normal and amblyopic vision. Sci Rep 3:2012

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Montgomery GE, Schuch HC (2007) GIS Data Conversion Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nakashizuka T (ed) (2007) Sustainability and Diversity of Forest Ecosystems: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Kutsch WL, Hörmann G, Kappen L (2008) Carbon and Energy Balances of Different Ecosystems and Ecosystem Complexes of the Bornhöved Lake District. In: Fränzle O, Kappen L, Blume H-P, Dierssen K (eds) Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape: Long-Term Research in the Bornhöved Lake District, Germany. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–99

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

Andrews R (2017) Bronze Age Weapons And Stone Age Structures Discovered Beneath Scotland. In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools: Expenditures in Selected Schools are Comparable to Similar Public Schools, But Data Are Insufficient to Judge Adequacy of Funding and Formulas. 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

van der Steen R (2015) Intended infidelity: Male-female differences in intention-behavior congruence and the relative prediction power of gender, relationship and individual difference variables. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Cobb JG (2017) A Whiff of That New-Car Smell Is Just a Page Flip Away. New York Times B7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Premack 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Premack 2004; Richardson and Marone 2008).

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

Two authors: (Richardson and Marone 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2013)

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