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

Eisenberg, R.S., 2003. Science and the law. Patent swords and shields. Science 299, 1018–1019.

A journal article with 2 authors

Al Khawaja, U., Stoof, H., 2001. Skyrmions in a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate. Nature 411, 918–920.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jedema, F.J., Filip, A.T., van Wees, B.J., 2001. Electrical spin injection and accumulation at room temperature in an all-metal mesoscopic spin valve. Nature 410, 345–348.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ni, S., Tan, E., Gurnis, M., Helmberger, D., 2002. Sharp sides to the African superplume. Science 296, 1850–1852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dos Santos, E.C., Jr, Cabral da Silva, E.R., 2014. ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rowiński, P., Marion, A. (Eds.), 2016. Hydrodynamic and Mass Transport at Freshwater Aquatic Interfaces: 34th International School of Hydraulics, GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ignatenko, T., Willems, F.M.J., 2013. Privacy Leakage in Binary Biometric Systems: From Gaussian to Binary Data, in: Campisi, P. (Ed.), Security and Privacy in Biometrics. Springer, London, pp. 105–122.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Can A Virtual Reality Game Make You Forget You’re In Pain? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2006. Small Business Innovation Research: Information on Awards Made by NIH and DoD in Fiscal Years 2001 through 2004 (No. GAO-06-565). 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

Smith, J.R., 2010. The evolving profile of alternative tobacco use in California (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Cook, L., Olsen, P.R., 2009. It Started at the Gas Pump. New York Times BU9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenberg, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Al Khawaja and Stoof, 2001; Eisenberg, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Al Khawaja and Stoof, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ni et al., 2002)

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

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