How to format your references using the American Entomologist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Entomologist. 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	Download the output style file
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

Funk CD. 2001. Prostaglandins and leukotrienes: advances in eicosanoid biology. Science. 294(5548):1871–1875.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arnold K, Zuberbühler K. 2006. Language evolution: semantic combinations in primate calls. Nature. 441(7091):303.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lucia U, Ponzetto A, Deisboeck TS. 2014. A thermo-physical analysis of the proton pump vacuolar-ATPase: the constructal approach. Sci. Rep. 4:6763.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Feng L-X, Chen Y, Dettin L, et al. 2002. Generation and in vitro differentiation of a spermatogonial cell line. Science. 297(5580):392–395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burton E. 2016. Business and Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ogras UY. 2013. Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Network-on-Chip Communication Architectures. Marculescu R, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering). XIV, 174 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

van Glabbeek RJ, Goltz U, Schicke J-W. 2011. On Causal Semantics of Petri Nets. In: Katoen J-P, König B, editors. CONCUR 2011 – Concurrency Theory: 22nd International Conference, CONCUR 2011, Aachen, Germany, September 6-9, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). p. 43–59.

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 American Entomologist.

Blog post

Hale T. 2017 Jun 2. Gay Vultures Successfully Hatch An Egg In Amsterdam. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gay-vultures-successfully-hatch-an-egg-in-amsterdam/.

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. 1989. Technology Transfer: Implementation Status of the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: RCED-89-154.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nelson PT. 2008. Sound as a gateway to a personal relationship with nature [Doctoral dissertation]. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Johnson G. 2014 May 20. Creation, in the Eye of the Beholder. New York Times.:D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Funk, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Funk, 2001; Arnold and Zuberbühler, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Arnold and Zuberbühler, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Feng et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Entomologist
Abbreviation	Am. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	1046-2821
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