How to format your references using the Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad citation style

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

Rubin, M. A. (2002). Tech.Sight. Understanding disease cell by cell. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1329–1330.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lattimer, J. M., & Prakash, M. (2004). The physics of neutron stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5670), 536–542.

A journal article with 3 authors

El-Ali, J., Sorger, P. K., & Jensen, K. F. (2006). Cells on chips. Nature, 442(7101), 403–411.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Malliri, A., van der Kammen, R. A., Clark, K., van der Valk, M., Michiels, F., & Collard, J. G. (2002). Mice deficient in the Rac activator Tiam1 are resistant to Ras-induced skin tumours. Nature, 417(6891), 867–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minenna, M. (2016). The Incomplete Currency: The Future of the Euro and Solutions for the Eurozone. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gera, R., Hedetniemi, S., & Larson, C. (Eds.). (2016). Graph Theory: Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems - 1. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Brüggemann, R., & Patil, G. P. (2011). Sensitivity and Ambiguity. In G. P. Patil (Ed.), Ranking and Prioritization for Multi-indicator Systems: Introduction to Partial Order Applications (pp. 43–55). Springer.

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 Mexicana de Biodiversidad.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 8). Jupiter’s Core May Be Shrinking Faster Than Previously Believed. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/jupiter-s-core-may-be-shrinking-faster-previously-believed/

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. (2009). Global Positioning System: Significant Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Widely Used Capabilities (GAO-09-670T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bornmann, J. W. (2009). Becoming soldiers: Army Basic Training and the negotiation of identity [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Billard, M. (2010, April 15). Wheels With Women in Mind. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rubin, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lattimer & Prakash, 2004; Rubin, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Lattimer & Prakash, 2004)
Three authors: (El-Ali et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Malliri et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad
Abbreviation	Rev. Mex. Biodivers.
ISSN (print)	1870-3453
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