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

Hakim AM: Perspective: silent, but preventable, perils. Nature 2014, 510:S12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phadnis N, Orr HA: A single gene causes both male sterility and segregation distortion in Drosophila hybrids. Science 2009, 323:376–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glazier AM, Nadeau JH, Aitman TJ: Finding genes that underlie complex traits. Science 2002, 298:2345–2349.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kawashima SA, Yamagishi Y, Honda T, Ishiguro K-I, Watanabe Y: Phosphorylation of H2A by Bub1 prevents chromosomal instability through localizing shugoshin. Science 2010, 327:172–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eggleston B: The ICE Conditions of Contract: Seventh Edition. Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Rueher M (Ed): Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 22nd International Conference, CP 2016, Toulouse, France, September 5-9, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Gaiter JL, O’Leary A: Disproportionate Drug Imprisonment Perpetuates the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in African American Communities. In African Americans and HIV/AIDS: Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic. Edited by McCree DH, Jones K, O’Leary A. Springer; 2010:69–83.

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: Just How Little Do We Know About The Ocean Floor? 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: Air Traffic Control: Analysis of Proposal to Create a Government Corporation. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Okafor-Dike LC: The effect of leadership on economic development: A case study of Nigeria. 2008,

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

(nyt) SK: World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Bounty Paid On Dead Chechen Leader. New York Times 2005,

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