How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Insect Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Insect Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Debije M: Renewable energy: better luminescent solar panels in prospect. Nature 2015, 519:298–299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ostriker JP, Steinhardt P: New light on dark matter. Science 2003, 300:1909–1913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fonseca PJ, Münch D, Hennig RM: How cicadas interpret acoustic signals. Nature 2000, 405:297–298.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gales NJ, Kasuya T, Clapham PJ, Brownell RL Jr: Japan’s whaling plan under scrutiny. Nature 2005, 435:883–884.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rushton A: VHDL for Logic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

White B, King I, Tsang P (Eds): Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Cleveland HH, Baker A, Dean LR: Characteristics of Collegiate Recovery Community Members. In Substance Abuse Recovery in College: Community Supported Abstinence. Edited by Cleveland HH, Harris KS, Wiebe RP. Springer US; 2010:37–56.

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 Current Opinion in Insect Science.

Blog post

Hale T: Forget Lab-Grown Meat, Eating Insects Is Best For The Planet. IFLScience 2017,

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: Surface Transportation: Improvements in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Commodity Flow Survey. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lyzlov A: In Vivo Efficacy of Lanthanum Carbonate on Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption in Stage Five Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis. 2017,

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

Grynbaum MM, Steel E: After Ailes’s Departure, a Stony Silence at Fox. New York Times 2016,

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Opinion in Insect Science
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Insect Sci.
ISSN (print)	2214-5745
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science