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

Smaglik P (2002) Norway: Turning oil into science. Nature 417:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Pérez-Gussinyé M, Watts AB (2005) The long-term strength of Europe and its implications for plate-forming processes. Nature 436:381–384

A journal article with 3 authors

Pouysségur J, Dayan F, Mazure NM (2006) Hypoxia signalling in cancer and approaches to enforce tumour regression. Nature 441:437–443

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brasier MD, Green OR, Jephcoat AP, et al (2002) Questioning the evidence for Earth’s oldest fossils. Nature 416:76–81

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman RL (2005) Telecommunication System Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Maltz MD, Rice SK (eds) (2015) Envisioning Criminology: Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Seibel MJ, Meier C (2010) Biochemical Markers of Bone Turnover – Basic Biochemistry and Variability. In: Adler RA (ed) Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology and Clinical Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 97–130

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 E (2014) Microbeads In Soaps Facing Bans Due To Great Lakes Pollution. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/microbeads-soaps-facing-bans-due-great-lakes-pollution/. 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 (1998) Best Practices: Elements Critical to Successfully Reducing Unneeded RDT&E Infrastructure. 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

Shah RA (2010) Who am I? A biracial and interfaith woman’s perspective: A personal narrative. 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

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 (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Pérez-Gussinyé and Watts 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pérez-Gussinyé and Watts 2005)
Three or more authors: (Brasier et al. 2002)

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