How to format your references using the Chemoecology citation style

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

Martin TE (2015) LIFE HISTORY. Age-related mortality explains life history strategies of tropical and temperate songbirds. Science 349:966–970

A journal article with 2 authors

Welsh RM, Selin LK (2009) Attrition of memory CD8 T cells. Nature 459:E3-4; discussion E4

A journal article with 3 authors

Green ED, Watson JD, Collins FS (2015) Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology. Nature 526:29–31

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Judson H, Hayward BE, Sheridan E, Bonthron DT (2002) A global disorder of imprinting in the human female germ line. Nature 416:539–542

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xiu L (2012) Nanometer Frequency Synthesis Beyond the Phase-Locked Loop. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Leeming DA (ed) (2014) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Wolff MPH (2015) Banach Spaces and Linear Operators. In: Loeb PA, Wolff MPH (eds) Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 107–162

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 Chemoecology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) New Evidence Plants Can “Think” And Make Decisions Based On Possible Future Risks. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-evidence-plants-can-think-and-make-decisions-based-possible-future-risks/. 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 (2006) Aviation Security: Management Challenges Remain for the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program. 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

Baghdadi M (2012) A comparison of gender representation in English (EFL) and Arabic (AFL) textbooks in Iran: A critical discourse analysis. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Suleiman SR (2016) Selected for Death. New York Times BR20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Martin 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Welsh and Selin 2009; Martin 2015).

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

Two authors: (Welsh and Selin 2009)
Three or more authors: (Judson et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemoecology
Abbreviation	Chemoecology
ISSN (print)	0937-7409
ISSN (online)	1423-0445
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Biochemistry