How to format your references using the International Journal of Odonatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Odonatology. 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

Chapman, T. (2003). Lab automation and robotics: Automation on the move. Nature, 421(6923), 661, 663, 665–666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Page, S. L., & Hawley, R. S. (2003). Chromosome choreography: the meiotic ballet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5634), 785–789.

A journal article with 3 authors

Babaev, E., Sudbø, A., & Ashcroft, N. W. (2004). A superconductor to superfluid phase transition in liquid metallic hydrogen. Nature, 431(7009), 666–668.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tegze, M., Faigel, G., Marchesini, S., Belakhovsky, M., & Ulrich, O. (2000). Imaging light atoms by X-ray holography. Nature, 407(6800), 38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Green, P. E., Jr. (2005). Fiber to the Home. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bosse, T., Cook, D. J., Neerincx, M., & Sadri, F. (Eds.). (2013). Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions (Vol. 8). Atlantis Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlberg, C., & Molnár, F. (2014). Linking Signal Transduction and Gene Regulation. In F. Molnár (Ed.), Mechanisms of Gene Regulation (pp. 71–89). Springer Netherlands.

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 International Journal of Odonatology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, October 22). Pig-Like “Bacon Turtle” Swam The Ancient Waterways Of Utah. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1992). Stafford Student Loans: Prompt Payment of Origination Fees Could Reduce Costs (HRD-92-61). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ott, W. H. (2017). An Analysis of the Coordinated Implementation of Digitally-Aided Close Air Support: An Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, May 28). A Devil in the Details, But Not the Constitution. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman, 2003; Page & Hawley, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Page & Hawley, 2003)
Three authors: (Babaev et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Tegze et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Odonatology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Odonatol.
ISSN (print)	1388-7890
ISSN (online)	2159-6719
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science