How to format your references using the Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 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

Goodman, S., 2001. Battle to save beleaguered beluga. Nature 412, 108.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dalton, R., Abbott, A., 2000. Hawaii reaches for the stars with astronomy master plan. Nature 405, 872.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, X., Zheng, X., You, H., 2010. Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers. Nature 464, 1338–1341.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sehorn, M.G., Sigurdsson, S., Bussen, W., Unger, V.M., Sung, P., 2004. Human meiotic recombinase Dmc1 promotes ATP-dependent homologous DNA strand exchange. Nature 429, 433–437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curtis, P.M., 2011. Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schiff, R., Joshi, R.M. (Eds.), 2016. Interventions in Learning Disabilities: A Handbook on Systematic Training Programs for Individuals with Learning Disabilities, Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Blum, E.K., 2011. The Hardware Side, in: Blum, E.K., Aho, A.V. (Eds.), Computer Science: The Hardware, Software and Heart of It. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 71–96.

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 Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Japan Accused Of Falsifying Historical Whaling Data [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/japan-accused-falsifying-whaling-data/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2001. Human Capital: Attracting and Retaining a High-Quality Information Technology Workforce (No. GAO-02-113T). 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

Dickson, B., 2008. Yielding architecture: A manifesto for [urban + agri]culture (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

James, G., 2000. Talking and Driving: Growing Road Menace? New York Times 14NJ1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton and Abbott, 2000; Goodman, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Dalton and Abbott, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Sehorn et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Abbreviation	Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0965-1748
Scope	Insect Science Biochemistry Molecular Biology