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

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

Subrahmanian VS. 2007. Computer science. Cultural modeling in real time. Science. 317(5844):1509–1510.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ozanne SE, Hales CN. 2004. Lifespan: catch-up growth and obesity in male mice. Nature. 427(6973):411–412.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sander R, Crutzen PJ, von Glasow R. 2004. Comment on “Reactions at interfaces as a source of sulfate formation in sea-salt particles” (II). Science. 303(5658):628; author reply 628.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Faulkner DR, Mitchell TM, Healy D, et al. 2006. Slip on “weak” faults by the rotation of regional stress in the fracture damage zone. Nature. 444(7121):922–925.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fischer DJ, Treister NS, Pinto A. 2013. Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Akhgar B, Brewster B, editors. 2016. Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities. Cham: Springer International Publishing (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications). XII, 323 p. 36 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Guerraggio A, Paoloni G. 2013. Rome, Public Appointments, the Politician. In: Paoloni G, editor. Vito Volterra. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 47–75.

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 Economic Entomology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015 Oct 8. How A One Night Stand In The Ice Age Affects Us All Today. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-one-night-stand-ice-age-affects-us-all-today/.

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. 2015. Information Technology: Management Needs to Address Reporting of IRS Investments’ Cost, Schedule, and Scope Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-15-297.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Machula M. 2014. Understanding and Predicting Teachers’ Knowledge of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder [Doctoral dissertation]. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Poniewozik J. 2017 Aug 24. Fantasy Frenzy? Or Eerie Dreams? New York Times.:C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Subrahmanian, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ozanne and Hales, 2004; Subrahmanian, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ozanne and Hales, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Faulkner et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Entomology
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0493
ISSN (online)	1938-291X
Scope	Insect Science Ecology General Medicine