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

Neylon C (2012) Science publishing: Open access must enable open use. Nature 492:348–349

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaeberlein M, Kapahi P (2009) Cell signaling. Aging is RSKy business. Science 326:55–56

A journal article with 3 authors

Zobel M, Neder RB, Kimber SAJ (2015) Universal solvent restructuring induced by colloidal nanoparticles. Science 347:292–294

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Han Z, Tang Z, Shen S, et al (2014) Strengthening of graphene aerogels with tunable density and high adsorption capacity towards Pb2+. Sci Rep 4:5025

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goering H, Roos H-G, Tobiska L (2010) Die Finite-Elemente-Methode für Anfänger. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Gavrilova ML, Gervasi O, Kumar V, et al (eds) (2006) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006: International Conference, Glasgow, UK, May 8-11, 2006. Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Beeldens A, Cassar L, Murata Y (2011) Applications of TiO2 Photocatalysis for Air Purification. In: Ohama Y, Van Gemert D (eds) Applications of Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis to Construction Materials: State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 194-TDP. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 23–35

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) “Heat Bombs” May Explain Why The Sun’s Outer Atmosphere Is So Hot. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/heat-bombs-may-explain-why-the-suns-outer-atmosphere-is-so-hot/. 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 (1997) Medicare Automated Systems: Weaknesses in Managing Information Technology Hinder Fight Against Fraud and Abuse. 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

Nuno ZS (2012) Visible and mid-infrared optical studies of plasmon and phonon resonant nanoparticles using apertureless near-field scanning optical microscopy. 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

Stellin S (2013) Do You Have a Doctor’s Note? New York Times RE1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neylon 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Kaeberlein and Kapahi 2009; Neylon 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kaeberlein and Kapahi 2009)
Three or more authors: (Han et al. 2014)

About the journal

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