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

Brenner MP. Fluid mechanics. Jets from a singular surface. Nature 2000; 403:377–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heinze S, Homberg U. Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect. Science 2007; 315:995–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu Y, Grey F, Zheng Q. The high-speed sliding friction of graphene and novel routes to persistent superlubricity. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4875.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kéfi S, Rietkerk M, Alados CL, Pueyo Y, Papanastasis VP, Elaich A, de Ruiter PC. Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems. Nature 2007; 449:213–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stanley W, Pamela B. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2017.

An edited book

Chen J, editor. Application of Ionic Liquids on Rare Earth Green Separation and Utilization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Yannopoulos A, Christodoulou Y, Bountris E, Savrami K, Douza M. Metadata, Domain Specific Languages and Visualisations as Internal Artifacts Driving an Agile Knowledge Engineering Methodology. In: Garoufallou E, Greenberg J, editors. Metadata and Semantics Research: 7th Research Conference, MTSR 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 19-22, 2013. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. page 22–34.

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. New Type Of Exoplanet Discovered [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-type-exoplanet-discovered/

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. Gender Equity: Men’s and Women’s Participation in Higher Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mani V. Empirical study of link between operations and financial performance for retailers. 2011;

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

Greenhouse L. Supreme Court Ruling Limits State Control of Big Banks. New York Times2007; :C2.

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