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

Maxmen, A. (2011). Translational research: The American way. Nature, 478(7368), S16-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buyx, A., & Tait, J. (2011). Ethics. Ethical framework for biofuels. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6029), 540–541.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank, F., Sonenberg, N., & Nagar, B. (2010). Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature, 465(7299), 818–822.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bi, Y.-G., Feng, J., Liu, Y.-S., Li, Y.-F., Chen, Y., Zhang, X.-L., Han, X.-C., & Sun, H.-B. (2014). Surface plasmon-polariton mediated red emission from organic light-emitting devices based on metallic electrodes integrated with dual-periodic corrugation. Scientific Reports, 4, 7108.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frantzen, A. J. (2012). Anglo-Saxon Keywords. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nagoshi, J. L. (2014). Gender and Sexual Identity: Transcending Feminist and Queer Theory (C. T. Nagoshi & S. Brzuzy, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Petzoldt, A., Bulygin, S., & Buchmann, J. (2010). CyclicRainbow – A Multivariate Signature Scheme with a Partially Cyclic Public Key. In G. Gong & K. C. Gupta (Eds.), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2010: 11th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 33–48). 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

Hale, T. (2017, February 10). The Sexiest Way To Dance, According To Science. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-sexiest-way-to-dance-according-to-science/

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. (1988). Command and Control: Upgrades Allow Deferral of $500 Million Computer Acquisition (IMTEC-88-10). 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

Saurage-Altenloh, S. M. (2017). The Measured Influence of Supplier CSR on Brand Performance Expectations in B2B Relationships [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Nir, S. M., & Rosenberg, E. (2016, September 1). Recreation and Commerce Collide on City’s Crowded Waterways. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Buyx & Tait, 2011; Maxmen, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Buyx & Tait, 2011)
Three authors: (Frank et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Bi 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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