How to format your references using the Journal of Hymenoptera Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Berger LR (2013) The mosaic nature of Australopithecus sediba. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340: 163–165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde JS, Linn MC (2006) Diversity. Gender similarities in mathematics and science. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314: 599–600.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmitz D, Mellor J, Nicoll RA (2001) Presynaptic kainate receptor mediation of frequency facilitation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291: 1972–1976.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang Z, Smith KS, Murphy M, Piloto O, Somervaille TCP, Cleary ML (2008) Glycogen synthase kinase 3 in MLL leukaemia maintenance and targeted therapy. Nature 455: 1205–1209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fiorenzani S, Ravelli S, Edoli E (2012) The Handbook of Energy Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Zhou Q (2013) Network Robustness under Large-Scale Attacks. Gao L, Liu R, Cui S (Eds). Springer, New York, NY, VIII, 41 p. 12 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Consani C, Marcolli M (2006) Archimedean cohomology revisited. In: Consani C, Marcolli M (Eds), Noncommutative Geometry and Number Theory: Where Arithmetic meets Geometry and Physics. Vieweg, Wiesbaden, 109–140.

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 Hymenoptera Research.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Newly Refined “Liquid Biopsies” Could Detect Cancer From Simple Blood Tests. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/newly-refined-liquid-biopsies-could-detect-cancer-from-simple-blood-tests/ (October 30, 2018).

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 (2001) Commercial Aviation: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance. 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

Anderson CW (2009) Breaking journalism down: Work, authority, and networking local news, 1997–2009. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia 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

Crow K (2002) Some Want a Cultural Hub; Others See a Center on Steroids. New York Times: 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berger 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hyde and Linn 2006, Berger 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hyde and Linn 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hymenoptera Research
ISSN (print)	1070-9428
ISSN (online)	1314-2607
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