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

McMurray B. 2007. Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion. Science. 317(5838):631.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gupta V, Poss KD. 2012. Clonally dominant cardiomyocytes direct heart morphogenesis. Nature. 484(7395):479–484.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stott L, Timmermann A, Thunell R. 2007. Southern Hemisphere and deep-sea warming led deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise and tropical warming. Science. 318(5849):435–438.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aizenberg J, Tkachenko A, Weiner S, et al. 2001. Calcitic microlenses as part of the photoreceptor system in brittlestars. Nature. 412(6849):819–822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Graham C. 2014. Markov Chains: Analytic and Monte Carlo Computations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics).

An edited book

Grady M. 2016. The Shawshank Experience: Tracking the History of the World’s Favorite Movie. Magistrale T, editor. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US. X, 235 p. 15 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Lesiv M, Bun A, Jonas M. 2015. Analysis of change in relative uncertainty in GHG emissions from stationary sources for the EU 15. In: Ometto JP, Bun R, Jonas M, et al., editors. Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Expanding Our Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing. p. 55–68.

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

Andrew D. 2015 Oct 4. Learn Anatomy By Dissecting Knitted Animals. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dissecting-knitted-creatures/.

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. 1991. Space Shuttle: NASA Should Implement Independent Oversight of Software Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: IMTEC-91-20.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith C. 2013. The affect of acculturation on obesity among foreign-born Asians residing in the United States [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: 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

Crow K. 2002 Apr 21. If You Can’t Stand the Name, Get Out of Hell’s Kitchen. New York Times.:144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McMurray, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (McMurray, 2007; Gupta and Poss, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gupta and Poss, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Aizenberg et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Entomologist
Abbreviation	Am. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	1046-2821
ISSN (online)	2155-9902
Scope