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

Fewell JH (2003) Social insect networks. Science 301:1867–1870

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang R, Yan X (2014) Superior asymmetric supercapacitor based on Ni-Co oxide nanosheets and carbon nanorods. Sci Rep 4:3712

A journal article with 3 authors

Marty B, Dewonck S, France-Lanord C (2003) Geochemical evidence for efficient aquifer isolation over geological timeframes. Nature 425:55–58

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hinds DA, Stuve LL, Nilsen GB, et al (2005) Whole-genome patterns of common DNA variation in three human populations. Science 307:1072–1079

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sox HC, Higgins MC, Owens DK (2013) Medical Decision Making. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Reaman GH, Smith FO (eds) (2011) Childhood Leukemia: A Practical Handbook. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Itterheim S, Löw A (2011) Your First Game. In: Löw A (ed) Learn cocos2D Game Development with iOS 5. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 81–113

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

Andrews R (2015) Is Friday The 13th Really Unlucky? In: IFLScience. 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 (1989) Head Start: Information on Sponsoring Organizations and Center Facilities. 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

Jin R (2017) Graph-Based Rhythm Interpretation in Optical Music Recognition. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Walsh MW (2014) Senate Report Says Caterpillar Used Swiss Subsidiary to Reduce Taxes. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fewell 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fewell 2003; Wang and Yan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Yan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hinds et al. 2005)

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