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

Brown D (2012) Mutant flu - the view from the newsroom. Nature 485:7

A journal article with 2 authors

Marcus DM, Grollman AP (2006) Science and government. Review for NCCAM is overdue. Science 313:301–302

A journal article with 3 authors

Smilkov D, Hidalgo CA, Kocarev L (2014) Beyond network structure: How heterogeneous susceptibility modulates the spread of epidemics. Sci Rep 4:4795

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brouwer AM, Frochot C, Gatti FG, et al (2001) Photoinduction of fast, reversible translational motion in a hydrogen-bonded molecular shuttle. Science 291:2124–2128

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Kelly M, Ratitch B (2014) Clinical Trials with Missing Data. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Quang NP (2008) Vector Control of Three-Phase AC Machines: System Development in the Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jónsson Á, Sigurgeirsson H (2016) Day Zero. In: Sigurgeirsson H (ed) The Icelandic Financial Crisis: A Study into the World´s Smallest Currency Area and its Recovery from Total Banking Collapse. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 103–138

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) Scientists Investigate Mysterious “Crater” In Antarctica. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mysterious-crater-in-antarctica-likely-formed-by-wind-not-meteorite/. 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 (2004) Health Care: National Strategy Needed to Accelerate the Implementation of Information Technology. 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

Coleman MJ (2010) Surface accuracy analysis and mathematical modeling of deployable large aperture elastic antenna reflectors. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Greenhouse L (2008) On Court That Defied Labeling, Kennedy Made the Boldest Mark. 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 (Brown 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Marcus and Grollman 2006; Brown 2012).

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

Two authors: (Marcus and Grollman 2006)
Three or more authors: (Brouwer et al. 2001)

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