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

Greene, M.T. High Achiever. Nature 2000, 407, 947.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bird, J.P.; Ochiai, Y. Physics. Electron Spin Polarization in Nanoscale Constrictions. Science 2004, 303, 1621–1622.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mulepati, S.; Héroux, A.; Bailey, S. Structural Biology. Crystal Structure of a CRISPR RNA-Guided Surveillance Complex Bound to a SsDNA Target. Science 2014, 345, 1479–1484.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Laskin, A.; Gaspar, D.J.; Wang, W.; Hunt, S.W.; Cowin, J.P.; Colson, S.D.; Finlayson-Pitts, B.J. Reactions at Interfaces as a Source of Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Particles. Science 2003, 301, 340–344.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Acharya, V.V.; Cooley, T.F.; Richardson, M.; Walter, I. Regulating Wall Street; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781118258231.

An edited book

Proceedings of the 22nd International Meshing Roundtable; Sarrate, J., Staten, M., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; ISBN 9783319023342.

A chapter in an edited book

Praveen, S.; Gangadharan, G.R. SecDSIM: A Framework for Secure Data Storage and Identity Management in the Cloud. In Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions; Mahmood, Z., Ed.; Computer Communications and Networks; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 105–125 ISBN 9783319105291.

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

Andrews, R. The IPhone 7’s Tagline Means Something Slightly Naughty In Hong Kong Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-iphone-7s-tagline-means-something-slightly-naughty-in-hong-kong/ (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 Selected Information on Bypass of Local Telephone Companies; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1986;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller, A. Group Mentoring Program to Empower Transitional-Aged Youth: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

(nyt), S.K. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Orthodox Church Berates Vatican. New York Times 2002, A10.

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