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

Dobson CM (2004) Protein chemistry. In the footsteps of alchemists. Science 304:1259–1262

A journal article with 2 authors

Majmudar TS, Behringer RP (2005) Contact force measurements and stress-induced anisotropy in granular materials. Nature 435:1079–1082

A journal article with 3 authors

Garlaschelli D, Caldarelli G, Pietronero L (2003) Universal scaling relations in food webs. Nature 423:165–168

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bowen GJ, Beerling DJ, Koch PL, et al (2004) A humid climate state during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 432:495–499

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szylar C (2013) Risk Management under UCITS III/IV. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Chew E, Childs A, Chuan C-H (eds) (2009) Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Oh S, Woo W (2008) ARGarden: Augmented Edutainment System with a Learning Companion. In: Pan Z, Cheok AD, Müller W, Rhalibi AE (eds) Transactions on Edutainment I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–50

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

Fang J (2014) How Trauma Early In Life Influences Later Behavior. 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 (1996) Transportation Infrastructure: Central Artery/Tunnel Project Faces Financial Uncertainties. 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

Tang D (2009) Event detection in sensor networks. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Antilla S (2016) Decades After Suit, Wall St. Bias Persists for Women. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Dobson 2004; Majmudar and Behringer 2005).

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

Two authors: (Majmudar and Behringer 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bowen et al. 2004)

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

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