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

Willyard C. 2015. Screening: Early alert. Nature 521: S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis SL, Maslin MA. 2015. Defining the anthropocene. Nature 519: 171–180.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaufman TC, Severson DW, Robinson GE. 2002. The Anopheles genome and comparative insect genomics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298: 97–98.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li T, Lin Y, Shang Y, He L, Huang C, Szabunio M, Yu G. 2013. Simultaneous measurement of deep tissue blood flow and oxygenation using noncontact diffuse correlation spectroscopy flow-oximeter. Scientific reports 3: 1358.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov BM. 2011. Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Srivastava R. 2016. Growth and Form of Self-organized Branched Crystal Pattern in Nonlinear Chemical System. Yadav N, Chattopadhyay J [eds.]. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Érsek T, Nagy ZÁ. 2008. Species hybrids in the genus Phytophthora with emphasis on the alder pathogen Phytophthora alni: a review, pp. 31–39 In Lebeda A, Spencer-Phillips PTN, Cooke BM [eds.], The Downy Mildews - Genetics, Molecular Biology and Control. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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. 2015. Dwarf Galaxies Feel The Blast From Larger Neighbours. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dwarf-galaxies-feel-blast-larger-neighbours/ (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. 1967. Automatic Data Processing. 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

Schulz JL. 2015. Factors Affecting Prey Availability and Habitat Usage of Wintering Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) in Coastal Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana

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

Giordano MA, Phillips AM. 2011. Mayor Hits Nerve in Remarks On Class Sizes and Teachers. New York Times: A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willyard 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lewis & Maslin 2015; Willyard 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lewis & Maslin 2015)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

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