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

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

Fine C (2014) Neuroscience. His brain, her brain? Science 346:915–916

A journal article with 2 authors

Viscidi RP, Shah KV (2008) Cancer. A skin cancer virus? Science 319:1049–1050

A journal article with 3 authors

Kozloski J, Hamzei-Sichani F, Yuste R (2001) Stereotyped position of local synaptic targets in neocortex. Science 293:868–872

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rea N, Esposito P, Turolla R, et al (2010) A low-magnetic-field soft gamma repeater. Science 330:944–946

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Held G (2001) Bulletproofing TCP/IP-based Windows NT/2000 Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Scheerens J (ed) (2014) Effectiveness of Time Investments in Education: Insights from a review and meta-analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Dall BE, Smith AG (2015) Pathology of the Sacroiliac Joint Leading to Surgery. In: Dall BE, Eden SV, Rahl MD (eds) Surgery for the Painful, Dysfunctional Sacroiliac Joint: A Clinical Guide. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–55

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 Conservation.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) How To Stop A Zombie Apocalypse – With Science. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-to-stop-a-zombie-apocalypse-with-science/. 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 (1989) Air Fares and Service at Concentrated Airports. 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

Ballard KJ (2012) Frequent factors for psychiatric hospital readmission. 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

Kelly F (1984) ETHNIC ORAL HISTORY BECOMING BOOKLETS. New York Times 11NJ13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fine 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Viscidi and Shah 2008; Fine 2014).

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

Two authors: (Viscidi and Shah 2008)
Three or more authors: (Rea et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Insect Conservation
Abbreviation	J. Insect Conserv.
ISSN (print)	1366-638X
ISSN (online)	1572-9753
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Insect Science Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation