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

Koenig R, 2000. EASTERN EUROPE: Science Survives in Breakaway States. Science 290, 692–693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stark JM, Hart SC, 2003. Nitrogen storage: UV-B radiation and soil microbial communities. Nature 423, 137–8; discussion 138.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfleiderer C, Julian SR, Lonzarich GG, 2001. Non-Fermi-liquid nature of the normal state of itinerant-electron ferromagnets. Nature 414, 427–430.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mendillo M, Laurent S, Wilson J, Baumgardner J, Konrad J, Karl WC, 2007. The sources of sodium escaping from Io revealed by spectral high definition imaging. Nature 448, 330–332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glasgow LA, 2014. Applied Mathematics for Science and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Huang S, 2006. Real and Complex Clifford Analysis, Advances in Complex Analysis and Its Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Mayr EW, Weihmann J, 2013. Results on Equivalence, Boundedness, Liveness, and Covering Problems of BPP-Petri Nets, in: Colom, J.-M., Desel, J. (Eds.), Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency: 34th International Conference, PETRI NETS 2013, Milan, Italy, June 24-28, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 70–89.

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

Fang J, 2016. This Small-Brained Fish Uses Both Vision And Electrical Senses [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-smallbrained-fish-uses-both-vision-and-electrical-senses/ (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, 1968. Opportunity For Savings In Space Programs By Reevaluating Needs Before Buying Facilities ( No. B-164027). 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

Reller TL, 2010. Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two small schools (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

TERRI LYNN KELLY; As told to Amy Zipkin, 2006. Making the Suit Fit. New York Times 39.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig 2000; Stark and Hart 2003).

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

Two authors: (Stark and Hart 2003)
Three or more authors: (Mendillo et al. 2007)

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