How to format your references using the Florida Entomologist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Florida Entomologist. 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

Clack JA. 2004. Paleontology. From fins to fingers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304: 57–58.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rutherford AW, Boussac A. 2004. Biochemistry. Water photolysis in biology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303: 1782–1784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brunton BW, Botvinick MM, Brody CD. 2013. Rats and humans can optimally accumulate evidence for decision-making. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340: 95–98.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tocheri MW, Orr CM, Larson SG, Sutikna T, Jatmiko, Saptomo EW, Due RA, Djubiantono T, Morwood MJ, Jungers WL. 2007. The primitive wrist of Homo floresiensis and its implications for hominin evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317: 1743–1745.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakker J, Clarke RJ. 2011. Wine Flavour Chemistry. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Gregory CD ed. 2016. 930 Apoptosis in Cancer Pathogenesis and Anti-cancer Therapy: New Perspectives and Opportunities. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Crumeyrolle-Arias M, Medvedev A, Cardona A, Tournaire M-C, Glover V. 2007. Endogenous oxidized indoles share inhibitory potency against [3H]isatin binding in rat brain, pp. 29–34 In Gerlach M, Deckert J, Double K, Koutsilieri E [eds.], Neuropsychiatric Disorders An Integrative Approach. Journal of Neural Transmission. Supplementa. Springer, Vienna.

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 Florida Entomologist.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Tour Every Known Galaxy In The Universe. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/tour-every-known-galaxy-universe/ (last 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. 1998. APHIS: Solid Wood Packing Material From China. 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

Guzman F. 2013. Terra Forming with You and Me. 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

Koblin J. 2017. Apple’s First Big TV Move: A Spielberg Series Reboot. New York Times: B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clack 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Clack 2004; Rutherford & Boussac 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rutherford & Boussac 2004)
Three or more authors: (Tocheri et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Florida Entomologist
Abbreviation	Fla. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0015-4040
ISSN (online)	1938-5102
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science