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

Katsnelson A: Microbiome: The puzzle in a bee’s gut. Nature 2015, 521:S56.

A journal article with 2 authors

Csabai I, Szathmáry E: Comment on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” Science 2011, 332:1149; author reply 1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dietz H, Douglas SM, Shih WM: Folding DNA into twisted and curved nanoscale shapes. Science 2009, 325:725–730.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ducut Sigala JL, Bottero V, Young DB, Shevchenko A, Mercurio F, Verma IM: Activation of transcription factor NF-kappaB requires ELKS, an IkappaB kinase regulatory subunit. Science 2004, 304:1963–1967.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberty RA: Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Bringas PG, Hameurlain A, Quirchmayr G (Eds): Database and Expert Systems Applications: 21th International Conference, DEXA 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Paulino N, Garção AS, Goes J: Digitally Programmable Delay. In Low Power Uwb Cmos Radar Sensors. Edited by Garção AS, Goes J. Springer Netherlands; 2008:115–166.

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

Luntz S: Male Bearded Dragons Turn Female In The Heat. IFLScience 2016,

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: Aviation Certification: FAA Has Made Continued Progress in Improving Its Processes for U.S. Aviation Products. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robertson E: Transitional services for emancipated foster youth: A grant proposal. 2014,

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

Kelly C: Covering the Rising Cost of Long-Term Care. New York Times 2013,

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

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