How to format your references using the Insects citation style

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

Ricci, L. History of Science: Dante’s Insight into Galilean Invariance. Nature 2005, 434, 717.

A journal article with 2 authors

Itoh, S.; Yurimoto, H. Contemporaneous Formation of Chondrules and Refractory Inclusions in the Early Solar System. Nature 2003, 423, 728–731.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayle, F.E.; Burbridge, R.; Killeen, T.J. Millennial-Scale Dynamics of Southern Amazonian Rain Forests. Science 2000, 290, 2291–2294.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lawniczak, M.K.N.; Emrich, S.J.; Holloway, A.K.; Regier, A.P.; Olson, M.; White, B.; Redmond, S.; Fulton, L.; Appelbaum, E.; Godfrey, J.; et al. Widespread Divergence between Incipient Anopheles Gambiae Species Revealed by Whole Genome Sequences. Science 2010, 330, 512–514.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ness, L. Securing Utility and Energy Infrastructures; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 9780470054543.

An edited book

Photoresponsive Polymers II; Marder, S.R., Lee, K.-S., Eds.; Advances in Polymer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 214; ISBN 9783540694526.

A chapter in an edited book

Van de Ven, A. Chern Classes and Complex Manifolds. In Classi caratteristiche e questioni connesse; Martinelli, E., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 189–219 ISBN 9783642110474.

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 Insects.

Blog post

Andrew, E. What Flows On Pluto? (accessed on 30 October 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 Spectrum Management: Preliminary Findings on Federal Relocation Costs and Auction Revenues; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Surges, G. Generative Audio Systems: Musical Applications of Time-Varying Feedback Networks and Computational Aesthetics. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 2015.

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

Corkery, M.; Protess, B. How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer. New York Times 2016, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Insects
Abbreviation	Insects
ISSN (online)	2075-4450
Scope	Insect Science