How to format your references using the Insect Systematics and Diversity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Insect Systematics and Diversity. 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

Lagendijk A. 2005. Pushing for power. Nature. 438(7067):429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen D, Ma XL. 2013. Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside tetragonal Al(2)Cu compound: slip system-dependent dynamics. Sci. Rep. 3:3157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen L, Dürr KL, Gouaux E. 2014. X-ray structures of AMPA receptor-cone snail toxin complexes illuminate activation mechanism. Science. 345(6200):1021–1026.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Raj L, Ide T, Gurkar AU, et al. 2018. Retraction Note: Selective killing of cancer cells by a small molecule targeting the stress response to ROS. Nature. 561(7723):420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sahalos JN. 2006. Orthogonal Methods for Array Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hemmje M, Niederée C, Risse T, editors. 2005. From Integrated Publication and Information Systems to Information and Knowledge Environments: Essays Dedicated to Erich J. Neuhold on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). XXIV, 328 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang T, Feng J. 2013. Algorithms in Computational Biology. In: Jiang R, Zhang X, Zhang MQ, editors. Basics of Bioinformatics: Lecture Notes of the Graduate Summer School on Bioinformatics of China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 151–161.

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 Systematics and Diversity.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014 Aug 8. Stroke Patients Recovering After Receiving Stem Cell Therapy. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stroke-patients-recovering-after-receiving-stem-cell-therapy/.

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. 2008. Health Information Technology: HHS Is Pursuing Efforts to Advance Nationwide Implementation, but Has Not Yet Completed a National Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-08-499T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kramer KA. 2010. System for Identifying Plankton from the SIPPER Instrument Platform [Doctoral dissertation]. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Kelly S. 2000 Oct 19. Op-art; Sub-liminal. New York Times.:A33.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lagendijk, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lagendijk, 2005; Chen and Ma, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Ma, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Raj et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Insect Systematics and Diversity
ISSN (online)	2399-3421
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