How to format your references using the Annals of the Entomological Society of America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 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

Saunders J. 2009. Physics. A glassy state of supersolid helium. Science. 324(5927):601–602.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chong CR, Sullivan DJ Jr. 2007. New uses for old drugs. Nature. 448(7154):645–646.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guedes JD, Bocinsky RK, Butler EE. 2015. Asian archaeology. Comment on "Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P. ". Science. 348(6237):872.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lichtenegger HC, Schöberl T, Bartl MH, et al. 2002. High abrasion resistance with sparse mineralization: copper biomineral in worm jaws. Science. 298(5592):389–392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll C, Antti Pirnes, Withers LLP. 2009. From Innovation to Cash Flows. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Miglio A, Montalbán J, Noels A, editors. 2012. Red Giants as Probes of the Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings). XIV, 182 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Gürses A, Açıkyıldız M, Güneş K, et al. 2016. Dyeing and Dyeing Technology. In: Açıkyıldız M, Güneş K, Gürses MS, editors. Dyes and Pigments. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science). p. 47–67.

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 Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015 Oct 15. Death Of A Landscape: Why Have Thousands Of Trees Dropped Dead In New South Wales? IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/death-landscape-why-have-thousands-trees-dropped-dead-new-south-wales/.

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. 1992. Embedded Computer Systems: C-17 Software Development Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: T-IMTEC-92-17.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Copeland EJ. 2010. A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness [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

McKINLEY JC Jr. 2017 Jun 2. For Bronx, Officer’s Indictment Makes Good on Prosecutor’s Plea for Patience. New York Times.:A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Saunders, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chong and Sullivan, 2007; Saunders, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Chong and Sullivan, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lichtenegger et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Abbreviation	Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am.
ISSN (print)	0013-8746
ISSN (online)	1938-2901
Scope	Insect Science