How to format your references using the Annual Review of Entomology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Entomology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Hovnanian JS. 2000. Let Armenia show why it’s the place for Sesame. Nature. 405(6786):508
A journal article with 2 authors
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Modlin RL, Sieling PA. 2005. Immunology. Now presenting: gammadelta T cells. Science. 309(5732):252–53
A journal article with 3 authors
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Kagawa F, Miyagawa K, Kanoda K. 2005. Unconventional critical behaviour in a quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor. Nature. 436(7050):534–37
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Li X, Wu Y, Steel D, Gammon D, Stievater TH, et al. 2003. An all-optical quantum gate in a semiconductor quantum dot. Science. 301(5634):809–11

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Bragg SM. 2013. Accounting Best Practices. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
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Remondino F, Stoppa D, eds. 2013. TOF Range-Imaging Cameras. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. V, 240 p. 138 illus., 85 illus. in color p.
A chapter in an edited book
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Martinez M-J, Hinde JP. 2014. Random Effects Ordinal Time Models for Grouped Toxicological Data from a Biological Control Assay. In Statistical Modelling in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics: Selected Papers, ed G MacKenzie, D Peng, pp. 45–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 Annual Review of Entomology.

Blog post
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Luntz S. 2015. Diverse Ecosystems Control Infectious Diseases. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/diverse-ecosystems-control-infectious-diseases/

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
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Government Accountability Office. 1998. FAA Systems: Serious Challenges Remain in Resolving Year 2000 and Computer Security Problems. T-AIMD-98-251, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Joseph FB. 2017. Adsorption and Transformation of Selenium from Elemental Selenium Nanoparticles by Pseudomonas fuscovaginae. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Southern Illinois 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
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Brantley B. 2017. Theater; Into the Trenches of World War I. New York Times, Feb. 1, p. AR4

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (2, 6–8).

About the journal

Full journal titleAnnual Review of Entomology
AbbreviationAnnu. Rev. Entomol.
ISSN (print)0066-4170
ISSN (online)1545-4487
ScopeEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Insect Science

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