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

Smaglik P (2004) Recruiters and industry. Building an intern programme. Nature 431:384

A journal article with 2 authors

Itoh S, Yurimoto H (2003) Contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions in the early Solar System. Nature 423:728–731

A journal article with 3 authors

Stone JV, Hunkin NM, Hornby A (2001) Predicting spontaneous recovery of memory. Nature 414:167–168

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Saghatelian A, Yokobayashi Y, Soltani K, Ghadiri MR (2001) A chiroselective peptide replicator. Nature 409:797–801

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Irene EA (2005) Electronic Materials Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Watanabe T, Uesugi I, Ono A (eds) (2015) The Economics of Interfirm Networks. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Cumming JJ, Van der Kleij FM (2016) Effective Enactment of Assessment for Learning and Student Diversity in Australia. In: Laveault D, Allal L (eds) Assessment for Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Implementation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–73

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

Andrews R (2017) A Long-Lost Dark Age Kingdom Has Been Rediscovered In Scotland. 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 (2006) Freight Railroads: Industry Health Has Improved, but Concerns about Competition and Capacity Should Be Addressed. 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

Nasiriamini S (2010) The need for adaptive network application architectures. 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

St. John Kelly E (1998) Circular Makes the Rounds and Residents Complain. New York Times 148

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Itoh and Yurimoto 2003; Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Itoh and Yurimoto 2003)
Three or more authors: (Saghatelian 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