How to format your references using the Applied Entomology and Zoology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Entomology and Zoology. 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

Putterman L (2014) Behavioural economics: A caring majority secures the future. Nature 511:165–166

A journal article with 2 authors

Lohmann U, Lesins G (2002) Stronger constraints on the anthropogenic indirect aerosol effect. Science 298:1012–1015

A journal article with 3 authors

Balachandran S, Thomas E, Barber GN (2004) A FADD-dependent innate immune mechanism in mammalian cells. Nature 432:401–405

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nel A, Xia T, Mädler L, Li N (2006) Toxic potential of materials at the nanolevel. Science 311:622–627

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheremisinoff NP, Davletshin A (2010) A Guide to Safe Material and Chemical Handling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Leung CB, Ruan J (eds) (2012) Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Chinese Literacy in China. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Shi M, Zhang Z, Zhou D (2015) Studies on Carrying Capacity of Water Resources in Beijing and Tianjin: Based on the Water Footprint. In: Wen K, Zhu E (eds) Report on Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province (2013): Measurement of Carrying Capacity and Countermeasures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 99–118

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 Applied Entomology and Zoology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Authorities In France Contemplate Dynamiting A Dead Whale Over Fears It Could Explode. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2013) Public Transit: Transit Agencies’ Use of Contracting to Provide Service. 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

Hao S (2013) An Introduction to Discrete Minimal Surfaces via the Enneper Surface. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Hollander S (2000) Hard Feelings. New York Times D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Putterman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lohmann and Lesins 2002; Putterman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lohmann and Lesins 2002)
Three or more authors: (Nel et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Entomology and Zoology
Abbreviation	Appl. Entomol. Zool. (Jpn.)
ISSN (print)	0003-6862
ISSN (online)	1347-605X
Scope	Insect Science