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

Ryan, A. J. (2009). Journal club. A chemist welcomes an ingenious advance in plastics technology. Nature, 458(7238), 553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Inchausti, P., & Halley, J. (2001). Investigating long-term ecological variability using the Global Population Dynamics Database. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5530), 655–657.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aubert, J., Finlay, C. C., & Fournier, A. (2013). Bottom-up control of geomagnetic secular variation by the Earth’s inner core. Nature, 502(7470), 219–223.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Soliman, F. M., Fathy, M. M., Salama, M. M., Al-Abd, A. M., Saber, F. R., & El-Halawany, A. M. (2014). Cytotoxic activity of acyl phloroglucinols isolated from the leaves of Eucalyptus cinerea F. Muell. ex Benth. cultivated in Egypt. Scientific Reports, 4, 5410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zanotto, E. D. (2013). Crystals in Glass. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ríos-Mercado, R. Z., & Ríos-Solís, Y. A. (Eds.). (2012). Just-in-Time Systems (Vol. 60). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, J. D., & Ryan, M. D. (2010). Ribosome “Skipping”: “Stop-Carry On” or “StopGo” Translation. In J. F. Atkins & R. F. Gesteland (Eds.), Recoding: Expansion of Decoding Rules Enriches Gene Expression (pp. 101–121). Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, December 4). Scientists Convert Human Skin Cells Into Pain Sensing Nerves. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-convert-human-skin-cells-pain-sensing-nerves/

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. (1977). Curriculum Case Studies Are of Questionable Quality but Helped Precollege Curriculum Activities (HRD-77-46). 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

Alexander, R. T. (2017). Can the analytical hierarchy process model be effectively applied in the prioritization of information assurance defense in-depth measures? - a quantitative study [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

Palmer, E., & Otis, J. (2016, November 12). Neediest Cases Fund Opens 105th Campaign. New York Times, A30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ryan, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Inchausti & Halley, 2001; Ryan, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Inchausti & Halley, 2001)
Three authors: (Aubert et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Soliman et al., 2014)

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