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

Hoag H, 2003. Building bridges. Nature 425, 882–883.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trinkle DR, Woodward C, 2005. The chemistry of deformation: how solutes soften pure metals. Science 310, 1665–1667.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson KG, Jackson JBC, Budd AF, 2008. Caribbean reef development was independent of coral diversity over 28 million years. Science 319, 1521–1523.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hwang ES, Szabo SJ, Schwartzberg PL, Glimcher LH, 2005. T helper cell fate specified by kinase-mediated interaction of T-bet with GATA-3. Science 307, 430–433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vento JJ, 2013. Financial Independence (Getting to Point X ). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nield DA, 2013. Convection in Porous Media, 4th ed. 2013. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Krygier M, 2014. Rule of Law (and Rechtsstaat), in: Silkenat, J.R., Hickey, J.E., Jr., Barenboim, P.D. (Eds.), The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat), Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 45–59.

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

Luntz S, 2014. Croatian Court Upholds Vaccine Mandate [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/croatian-court-upholds-vaccine-mandate/ (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, 2008. Approaches to Mitigate Freight Congestion ( No. GAO-09-163R). 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

Lovejoy LP, 2010. On the control of selective attention in the primate superior colliculus (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Mueller B, 2015. Squabbling, Hesitation and Luck Had Roles in Capture. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag 2003; Trinkle and Woodward 2005).

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

Two authors: (Trinkle and Woodward 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hwang 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