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

Jenkins, A. (2012). Literature: Wonders and ologies. Nature, 482(7383), 32–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Orphanides, G., & Reinberg, D. (2000). RNA polymerase II elongation through chromatin. Nature, 407(6803), 471–475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng, M., Zhao, J., & Petek, H. (2008). Atomlike, hollow-core-bound molecular orbitals of C60. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5874), 359–362.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yao, Q., Lu, Z.-H., Zhang, Z., Chen, X., & Lan, Y. (2014). One-pot synthesis of core-shell Cu@SiO2 nanospheres and their catalysis for hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane and hydrazine borane. Scientific Reports, 4, 7597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holt, J. (2013). The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Simón Mata, A. (2016). Fundamentals of Machine Theory and Mechanisms (A. Bataller Torras, J. A. Cabrera Carrillo, F. Ezquerro Juanco, A. J. Guerra Fernández, F. Nadal Martínez, & A. Ortiz Fernández, Eds.; Vol. 40). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Grönlund, Å., & Susha, I. (2012). A Communication Genre Perspective on e-Petitioning: The Case of the Citizens’ Initiative. In E. Tambouris, A. Macintosh, & Ø. Sæbø (Eds.), Electronic Participation: 4th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2012, Kristiansand, Norway, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 37–48). 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, October 18). Crowdfunded ‘Laser Razor’ Begs The Question Of What The Technology Can And Can’t Do. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/crowdfunded-laser-razor-begs-question-what-technology-can-and-can-t-do/

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. (1999). Space Transportation: Status of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program (NSIAD-99-176). 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

Kalavacherla, R. S. (2017). DFT study of the improved performance of oxygen reduction reaction on gold-copper alloy in a PEM fuel cell [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

Kanter, J. (2016, November 24). E.U. Official’s Move Fuels Talk of Merkel Challenge. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jenkins, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Jenkins, 2012; Orphanides & Reinberg, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Orphanides & Reinberg, 2000)
Three authors: (Feng et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Yao et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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