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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Insect Physiology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Check, E., 2002. Gene therapy: shining hopes dented - but not dashed. Nature 420, 735.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bunge, H.P., Grand, S.P., 2000. Mesozoic plate-motion history below the northeast Pacific Ocean from seismic images of the subducted Farallon slab. Nature 405, 337–340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martin, A.C., Kaschube, M., Wieschaus, E.F., 2009. Pulsed contractions of an actin-myosin network drive apical constriction. Nature 457, 495–499.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kaspi, Y., Galanti, E., Hubbard, W.B., Stevenson, D.J., Bolton, S.J., Iess, L., Guillot, T., Bloxham, J., Connerney, J.E.P., Cao, H., Durante, D., Folkner, W.M., Helled, R., Ingersoll, A.P., Levin, S.M., Lunine, J.I., Miguel, Y., Militzer, B., Parisi, M., Wahl, S.M., 2018. Jupiter’s atmospheric jet streams extend thousands of kilometres deep. Nature 555, 223–226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews, G.A., 2015. Pesticides. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Skiadas, C.H. (Ed.), 2010. Advances in Data Analysis: Theory and Applications to Reliability and Inference, Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Lifetime Data, and Neural Networks, Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Savin, S., 2006. Managing Patient Appointments in Primary Care, in: Hall, R.W. (Ed.), Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 123–150.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Nearby Exoplanet’s Hellish Atmosphere Measured [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nearby-exoplanets-hellish-atmosphere-measured/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2016. Federally Leased Vehicles: Agencies Should Strengthen Assessment Processes to Reduce Underutilized Vehicles (No. GAO-16-136). 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

Chapman, T.W., 2017. Evaluating the δ13C Value of n-Alkanes as a Recorder of Atmospheric Chemistry (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Nechepurenko, I., 2017. Kremlin Group Viewed As a Propaganda Mill. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bunge and Grand, 2000; Check, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bunge and Grand, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Kaspi et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Insect Physiology
Abbreviation	J. Insect Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-1910
Scope	Insect Science Physiology