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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pest Management. 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	Download the output style file
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

Leisinger K. 2015. Business needs to embrace sustainability targets. Nature. 528(7581):165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brubaker SW, Monack DM. 2015. IMMUNOLOGY. Microbial metabolite triggers antimicrobial defense. Science. 348(6240):1207–1208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Michael Beman J, Arrigo KR, Matson PA. 2005. Agricultural runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean. Nature. 434(7030):211–214.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Kadaba NS, Kaiser JT, Johnson E, Lee A, Rees DC. 2008. The high-affinity E. coli methionine ABC transporter: structure and allosteric regulation. Science. 321(5886):250–253.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett DH. 2013. Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cai L, Cheng S-W, Lam T-W, editors. 2013. Algorithms and Computation: 24th International Symposium, ISAAC 2013, Hong Kong, China, December 16-18, 2013, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vo N “jack”, Shet N. 2014. Radiology of the Liver in Children. In: Murray KF, Horslen S, editors. Diseases of the Liver in Children: Evaluation and Management. New York, NY: Springer; p. 85–105.

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 Pest Management.

Blog post

Davis J. 2016. 100-Million-Year-Old Relationship May Soon Be Driven To Extinction. 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. 1999. Space Station: Status of Russian Involvement and Cost Control Efforts. Washington, DC: 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

Dahdah S. 2008. Modeling an infrastructure safety rating for vulnerable road users in developing countries [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: 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

Rich N. 2014. The New Origin of the Species. New York Times.:MM24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leisinger 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Brubaker and Monack 2015; Leisinger 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brubaker and Monack 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kadaba et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Pest Management
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pest Manag.
ISSN (print)	0967-0874
ISSN (online)	1366-5863
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science