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

Coffman RL. 2010. Immunology. The origin of TH2 responses. Science. 328(5982):1116–1117.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zuber MT, Garrick-Bethell I. 2005. Planetary science. What do we need to know to land on the Moon again? Science. 310(5750):983–985.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cavazzana-Calvo M, Thrasher A, Mavilio F. 2004. The future of gene therapy. Nature. 427(6977):779–781.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tan CSH, Pasculescu A, Lim WA, et al. 2009. Positive selection of tyrosine loss in metazoan evolution. Science. 325(5948):1686–1688.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fink JK. 2016. Metallized and Magnetic Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bhidayasiri R. 2012. Movement Disorders: A Video Atlas: A Video Atlas. Tarsy D, editor. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press (Current Clinical Neurology). XV, 249 p. 117 illus., 111 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Subbarayan S. 2008. Efficient Reasoning for Nogoods in Constraint Solvers with BDDs. In: Hudak P, Warren DS, editors. Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages: 10th International Symposium, PADL 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 7-8, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). p. 53–67.

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

Carpineti A. 2016 Nov 24. Dwarf Galaxies Made Half The Stars In The Early Universe. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/space/dwarf-galaxies-made-half-the-stars-in-the-early-universe/.

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. 1998. Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues Associated With a Possible Amtrak Liquidation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: RCED-98-60.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yoon Y. 2010. Nano-tribology of discrete track recording media [Doctoral dissertation]. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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 Nov 17. Where 146 Died in a Fire, And a Union Was Born. New York Times.:146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coffman, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zuber and Garrick-Bethell, 2005; Coffman, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zuber and Garrick-Bethell, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tan et al., 2009)

About the journal

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