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

Magurran AE. 2009. Ecology. Threats to freshwater fish. Science. 325(5945):1215–1216.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trenberth KE, Otto-Bliesner BL. 2003. Paleoclimate. Toward integrated reconstruction of past climates. Science. 300(5619):589–590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duderstadt KE, Chuang K, Berger JM. 2011. DNA stretching by bacterial initiators promotes replication origin opening. Nature. 478(7368):209–213.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Boehmerle W, Huehnchen P, Peruzzaro S, et al. 2014. Electrophysiological, behavioral and histological characterization of paclitaxel, cisplatin, vincristine and bortezomib-induced neuropathy in C57Bl/6 mice. Sci. Rep. 4:6370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Trimble MR, George MS. 2010. Biological Psychiatry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Joseph L, Mahler M, Auyero J, editors. 2007. New Perspectives in Political Ethnography. New York, NY: Springer. VIII, 258 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Woollett N. 2016. Adolescents Living with HIV: Emerging Issues in Public Health in South Africa. In: Liamputtong P, editor. Children and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (Cross-Cultural Research in Health, Illness and Well-Being). p. 65–88.

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

Carpineti A. 2016 Aug 8. Study Suggests Badgers Do Not Spread TB To Cattle Directly. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-suggests-badgers-do-not-spread-tb-to-cattle-directly/.

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. 2006. National Transportation Safety Board: Preliminary Observations on the Value of Comprehensive Planning, and Greater Use of Leading Practices and the Training Academy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-06-801T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Papp TM. 2017. CrashApp^TM–Concurrent Multiple Stakeholder Evaluation of a DSR Artefact [Doctoral dissertation]. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Liptak A, Shear MD. 2017 Oct 3. Top Court Puts Gerrymandering On Unclear Path. 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 (Magurran, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Trenberth and Otto-Bliesner, 2003; Magurran, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Trenberth and Otto-Bliesner, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Boehmerle et al., 2014)

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