How to format your references using the Journal of Insect Behavior citation style

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

Corbyn Z (2014) Prevention: lessons from a sunburnt country. Nature 515:S114-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Keefe AD, Szostak JW (2001) Functional proteins from a random-sequence library. Nature 410:715–718

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz W, O’Neill BC, Scherbov S (2003) Demographics. Europe’s population at a turning point. Science 299:1991–1992

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ross JJ, Shimmi O, Vilmos P, et al (2001) Twisted gastrulation is a conserved extracellular BMP antagonist. Nature 410:479–483

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghavami M, Michael LB, Kohno R (2006) Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Tennberg M (ed) (2012) Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia and Finland. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Ashdown M, Tuddenham P, Robinson P (2010) High-Resolution Interactive Displays. In: Müller-Tomfelde C (ed) Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays. Springer, London, pp 71–100

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 Insect Behavior.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) What Actually Is The Insanely Potent VX Nerve Agent That Killed Kim Jong-Nam? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2008) Information Technology: Agriculture Needs to Strengthen Management Practices for Stabilizing and Modernizing Its Farm Program Delivery Systems. 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

DeMoss MD (2010) Mapping the issues: A content analysis of elementary and secondary education news stories from 1968 to 2008 on television networks. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Gustines GG (2010) In One Sad Day, an Old World Artisan Confronts a New World. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Corbyn 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Keefe and Szostak 2001; Corbyn 2014).

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

Two authors: (Keefe and Szostak 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ross et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Insect Behavior
Abbreviation	J. Insect Behav.
ISSN (print)	0892-7553
ISSN (online)	1572-8889
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science