How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Entomology citation style

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

Herman IP, 2007. Following the law. Nature 445, 228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Indriolo E, Goring DR, 2010. Plant science. Pollen gets more complex. Science 330, 767–768.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flachsova M, Sindelka R, Kubista M, 2013. Single blastomere expression profiling of Xenopus laevis embryos of 8 to 32-cells reveals developmental asymmetry. Sci. Rep. 3, 2278.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schwarz D, Matta BM, Shakir-Botteri NL, McPheron BA, 2005. Host shift to an invasive plant triggers rapid animal hybrid speciation. Nature 436, 546–549.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolf V, 2012. The Years. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bombardieri E, Gianni L, Bonadonna G (Eds.), 2008. Breast Cancer: Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gonçalves S, 2012. Intercultural Education from a Portuguese Perspective, in: Spinthourakis, J.A., Lalor, J., Berg, W. (Eds.), Cultural Diversity in the Classroom: A European Comparison. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 63–78.

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 Journal of Applied Entomology.

Blog post

Andrew E, 2014. Action shot of sexual reproduction of 100-million-year-old-flower has been preserved in amber [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/action-shot-sexual-reproduction-100-million-year-old-flower-has-been-preserved/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1981. Appropriated Funds ( No. B-202472). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sawant KG, 2015. A Chemo-Physical Model for Predicting Post Fracking Pressure Buildup in Pierre Shale (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Grynbaum MM, Steel E, 2017. Fox News, Pledging New Culture, Ousts Another Symbol of Old One. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Herman 2007; Indriolo and Goring 2010).

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

Two authors: (Indriolo and Goring 2010)
Three or more authors: (Schwarz et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Entomology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0931-2048
ISSN (online)	1439-0418
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science