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

Palmer T (2014) Atmospheric science. Record-breaking winters and global climate change. Science 344:803–804

A journal article with 2 authors

Sloan PA, Palmer RE (2005) Two-electron dissociation of single molecules by atomic manipulation at room temperature. Nature 434:367–371

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith J, Theodoris C, Davidson EH (2007) A gene regulatory network subcircuit drives a dynamic pattern of gene expression. Science 318:794–797

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Logothetis NK, Pauls J, Augath M, et al (2001) Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature 412:150–157

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen K-H (2016) Power Management Techniques for Integrated Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Khan MG (ed) (2008) Rapid ECG Interpretation. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Gore ML, Cooter EJ, Dennis RL, et al (2014) Ammonia Emissions in the US: Assessing the Role of Bi-directional Ammonia Transport Using the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model. In: Sutton MA, Mason KE, Sheppard LJ, et al. (eds) Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 31–38

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

Luntz S (2016) Does Education Give You Brain Cancer? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-education-give-you-brain-cancer/. 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 (1995) Weather Forecasting: Radar Availability Requirement Not Being Met. 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

Gaudet CJ (2013) A General Approach to the Direct Detection of Dark Matter. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Widdicombe B (2017) Glamour? There’s an App for That. New York Times ST4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palmer 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sloan and Palmer 2005; Palmer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sloan and Palmer 2005)
Three or more authors: (Logothetis et al. 2001)

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