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

Huber JA (2015) MICROBIAL ECOLOGY. Making methane down deep. Science 349:376–377

A journal article with 2 authors

Khosla C, Harbury PB (2001) Modular enzymes. Nature 409:247–252

A journal article with 3 authors

Rossa FD, Dercole F, Piccardi C (2013) Profiling core-periphery network structure by random walkers. Sci Rep 3:1467

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang Q, Sun X, Watt ED, Al-Hashimi HM (2006) Resolving the motional modes that code for RNA adaptation. Science 311:653–656

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacRoberts (2014) MacRoberts on Scottish Construction Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Soares R, Costa C (eds) (2009) Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Angiogenesis in the Metabolic Syndrome. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kamat RK, Shinde SA, Shelake VG (2009) Arithmetic Core Design and Design Reuse of Soft IP Cores. In: Shinde SA, Shelake VG (eds) Unleash the System On Chip using FPGAs and Handel C. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 81–113

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

Taub B (2016) According To This Study, Drinking Fizzy Drinks Can Have A Disturbing Effect On Your Penis. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/according-to-this-study-drinking-fizzy-drinks-can-have-a-disturbing-effect-on-your-penis/. 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 (1983) GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 3. 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

Haghighat R (2015) An optimization model to allocate budget in school rehabilitation projects. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kennedy R, Davey M, Yaccino S (2014) Foundations Aim to Save Pensions in Detroit Crisis. 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 (Huber 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Khosla and Harbury 2001; Huber 2015).

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

Two authors: (Khosla and Harbury 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2006)

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