How to format your references using the Fly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fly. 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	Download the output style file
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

Dance A. Micromanagement with light. Nature 2015; 528:291–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stewart SA, Allen PJ. A 20-km-diameter multi-ringed impact structure in the North Sea. Nature 2002; 418:520–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

McElwain JC, Wagner PJ, Hesselbo SP. Fossil plant relative abundances indicate sudden loss of Late Triassic biodiversity in East Greenland. Science 2009; 324:1554–6.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tom SM, Fox CR, Trepel C, Poldrack RA. The neural basis of loss aversion in decision-making under risk. Science 2007; 315:515–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hochberg Z. Evo-Devo of Child Growth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Biswal B, Krupinska K, Biswal UC, editors. Plastid Development in Leaves during Growth and Senescence. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Crivellaro A, Schweingruber FH. Identification keys. In: Schweingruber FH, editor. Atlas of Wood, Bark and Pith Anatomy of Eastern Mediterranean Trees and Shrubs: with a Special Focus on Cyprus. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. page 37–47.

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 Fly.

Blog post

Andrew E. In The Ocean, The Most Harmful Plastic Is Too Small To See [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ocean-most-harmful-plastic-too-small-see/

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. Proposed Revisions to Procurement Regulations Covering ADP Equipment and Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Locicero LM. The Effects of Vertical Casting Position in Reinforced Concrete. 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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Novelist Faces Pornography Charge. New York Times2002; :A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Fly
Abbreviation	Fly (Austin)
ISSN (print)	1933-6934
ISSN (online)	1933-6942
Scope	Insect Science