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

Taylor, T. (2001). Explanatory tyranny. Nature, 411(6836), 419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Millum, J., & Emanuel, E. J. (2007). Ethics. The ethics of international research with abandoned children. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5858), 1874–1875.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wurmser, A. E., Palmer, T. D., & Gage, F. H. (2004). Neuroscience. Cellular interactions in the stem cell niche. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1253–1255.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Couder, Y., Protière, S., Fort, E., & Boudaoud, A. (2005). Dynamical phenomena: walking and orbiting droplets. Nature, 437(7056), 208.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang, J. (2007). Six-Membered Transition States in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Barbosa, D., Anton, S., Gurvits, L., & Maia, D. (Eds.). (2012). The Square Kilometre Array: Paving the way for the new 21st century radio astronomy paradigm: Proceedings of Symposium 7 of JENAM 2010. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shibata, R. (2015). Globalization, Politics of Historical Memory, and Enmification in Sino-Japanese Relations. In J. Zajda (Ed.), Nation-Building and History Education in a Global Culture (pp. 67–81). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, August 8). NASA Forced To Hand $490 Million To Russia For Flights To The ISS And Their Chief Is Pissed. 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. (2001). FTS2001: Transition Challenges Jeopardize Program Goals (GAO-01-289). 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

Angell, B. D. (2017). Transformational Innovation and Transformational Leadership in the U.S. Government Department of Defense Acquisitions Workforce [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Wilford, J. N. (2016, October 24). Antiquity on the Clock. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Millum & Emanuel, 2007; Taylor, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Millum & Emanuel, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Couder et al., 2005)

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