How to format your references using the Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (RSBMT). 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

Kleypas J. Oceans. Invisible barriers to dispersal. Science 2015;348(6239):1086–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dunham-Snary KJ, Ballinger SW. GENETICS. Mitochondrial-nuclear DNA mismatch matters. Science 2015;349(6255):1449–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlson RJ, Valero FPJ, Seinfeld JH. Atmospheric science. In search of balance. Science 2005;308(5723):806–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tsuno S, Wang X, Shomori K, Hasegawa J, Miura N. Hsa-miR-520d induces hepatoma cells to form normal liver tissues via a stemness-mediated process. Sci Rep 2014;4:3852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bma. Everyday Medical Ethics and Law. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Electricity Distribution: Intelligent Solutions for Electricity Transmission and Distribution Networks. 1st ed. 2016. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Owen LA. Himalayan Landscapes of India. In: Kale VS, editor. Landscapes and Landforms of India. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 41–52.

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 da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical.

Blog post

Fang J. Brown Bears Enjoy Oral Sex. IFLScience. 2014.

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Has Not Fully Implemented Weather-Related Recommendations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Xiao S. Effects of adsorbates on the electronic properties of graphene. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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

Slotnik DE. Greg Marius, 59, Impresario of Harlem Street Ball. New York Times 2017:B16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference ⁽¹⁾.
This sentence cites two references ^{(1) (2)}.
This sentence cites four references ^{(1) (2) (3) (4)}.

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Abbreviation	Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.
ISSN (print)	0037-8682
ISSN (online)	1678-9849
Scope	Parasitology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)