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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Coyne JA. 2006. Comment on “Gene regulatory networks and the evolution of animal body plans.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 761; author reply 761.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weygand-Durasevic I, Ibba M. 2010. Cell biology. New roles for codon usage. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 1473–1474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson JJ, Björnmalm M, Caruso F. 2015. Multilayer assembly. Technology-driven layer-by-layer assembly of nanofilms. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348: aaa2491.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tharun S, He W, Mayes AE, Lennertz P, Beggs JD, Parker R. 2000. Yeast Sm-like proteins function in mRNA decapping and decay. Nature 404: 515–518.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smeets R, der Sluis L van, Kapetanović M, Peelo DF, Janssen A. 2014. Switching in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Casazza PG, Kutyniok G eds. 2013. Finite Frames: Theory and Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Kreutzer RT, Land K-H. 2015. How the Social Revolution Is to Be Managed, pp. 99–128 In Land K-H [ed.], Digital Darwinism: Branding and Business Models in Jeopardy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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. 2016. Code-A-Cola: How To Hide Secret Messages Using Fizzy Drinks. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/code-cola-how-hide-secret-messages-using-fizzy-drinks/ (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. 1991. Weather Satellites: The U.S. Geostationary Satellite Program Is at a Crossroad. 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

Courtney SJ. 2015. A Sea of Voices: An Alchemical Journey Through Dissociation. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Feeney K. 2008. A Cornucopia Of Produce. New York Times: NJ14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coyne 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Coyne 2006; Weygand-Durasevic & Ibba 2010).

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

Two authors: (Weygand-Durasevic & Ibba 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tharun et al. 2000)

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