How to format your references using the Insectes Sociaux citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Insectes Sociaux. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Koen D (2004) Nuts and bolts: career journals. Nature 427:180

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox RM, Calsbeek R (2010) Cryptic sex-ratio bias provides indirect genetic benefits despite sexual conflict. Science 328:92–94

A journal article with 3 authors

Nuttall WJ, Clarke RH, Glowacki BA (2012) Resources: Stop squandering helium. Nature 485:573–575

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jones PJ, Huhtamäki JAM, Salmilehto J, et al (2013) Tunable electromagnetic environment for superconducting quantum bits. Sci Rep 3:1987

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips JJ, Trotter WD, Phillips PP (2015) Maximizing the Value of Consulting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pavone P (2009) CT Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Janjuha-Jivraj S, Chisholm K (2016) Barriers to Progress: Confidence and Bias. In: Chisholm K (ed) Championing Women Leaders: Beyond Sponsorship. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 36–54

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 Insectes Sociaux.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) You Can Watch Wild Orcas In Action Thanks To These New Live Cameras. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/now-you-can-watch-orca-whales-live-thanks-these-cameras/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2017) Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: Improved Planning of Future Rehabilitation Projects Could Prevent Limitations Identified with SafeTrack. 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

Lee JY (2008) Socio-Spatial Exclusion Based on Human Activities and Social Networks in Space-Time: A Case Study of Koreans in Columbus, Ohio. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Djokovic Keeps Title Defense Alive, but Not Without an Early Scare. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Koen 2004; Cox and Calsbeek 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cox and Calsbeek 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Insectes Sociaux
Abbreviation	Insectes Soc.
ISSN (print)	0020-1812
ISSN (online)	1420-9098
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science