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

Sukhdev, P. 2009. Costing the earth. Nature. 462: 277.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matear, R. J., and B. I. McNeil. 2006. Comment on “Preindustrial to modern interdecadal variability in coral reef pH.” Science. 314: 595.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morris, R. J., O. T. Lewis, and H. C. J. Godfray. 2004. Experimental evidence for apparent competition in a tropical forest food web. Nature. 428: 310–313.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu, J.-K., Y. Satou, N. D. Holland, T. Shin-I, Y. Kohara, N. Satoh, M. Bronner-Fraser, and L. Z. Holland. 2007. Axial patterning in cephalochordates and the evolution of the organizer. Nature. 445: 613–617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sobel, A. 2009. All for One. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

(Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014: 14th International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV) . 2014. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014: 14th International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Monahan, T. S. 2012. Microvascular Changes in the Diabetic Foot, pp. 53–62. In Shrikhande, G.V., McKinsey, J.F. (eds.), Diabetes and Peripheral Vascular Disease: Diagnosis and Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

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, D. 2016. Using Monkeys For Research Is Justified – It’s Giving Us Treatments That Would Be Otherwise Impossible. 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. 1997. Proprietary Schools: Millions Spent to Train Students for Oversupplied Occupations ( No. HEHS-97-104). 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

Than, K. 2015. The impact of companion pets on the well-being of older adults (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Sisario, B. 2017. Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’ at No. 1 for Third Week. New York Times. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sukhdev 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Matear and McNeil 2006, Sukhdev 2009).

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

Two authors: (Matear and McNeil 2006)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al. 2007)

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