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

Heller E: Electrons in the looking glass. Nature 2000, 403:489, 491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scully KM, Rosenfeld MG: Pituitary development: regulatory codes in mammalian organogenesis. Science 2002, 295:2231–2235.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuan F, Depew R, Soltis-Muth C: Ecosystem regime change inferred from the distribution of trace metals in Lake Erie sediments. Sci Rep 2014, 4:7265.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wagner GP, Kenney-Hunt JP, Pavlicev M, Peck JR, Waxman D, Cheverud JM: Pleiotropic scaling of gene effects and the “cost of complexity.” Nature 2008, 452:470–472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouvier J-M, Campanella OH: Extrusion Processing Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Fratesi U, Senn L (Eds): Growth and Innovation of Competitive Regions: The Role of Internal and External Connections. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu CW, Alekseyev VY, Allwardt JR, Bankovich AJ, Cade-Menun BJ, Davis RW, Du L-S, Garcia KC, Herschlag D, Khosla C, et al.: The Diversity of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. In Biophysics and the Challenges of Emerging Threats. Edited by Puglisi J. Springer Netherlands; 2009:65–81.

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

Andrew E: Marriage of Ancient and Modern Makes Rosetta Mission a True Space Odyssey. IFLScience 2014,

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: Railroad Regulation: Changes in Railroad Rates and Service Quality Since 1990. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yasami S: Ultra-Low Power RFIC for Space/Medical/Mobile Applications. 2015,

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

Brantley B: An Embrace on a Grim Day. New York Times 2017,

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