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

van den Bogaard, P., 2013. The origin of the Canary Island Seamount Province - new ages of old seamounts. Sci. Rep. 3, 2107.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sato, T., Clevers, H., 2013. Growing self-organizing mini-guts from a single intestinal stem cell: mechanism and applications. Science 340, 1190–1194.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palazzo, A., Ackerman, B., Gundersen, G.G., 2003. Cell biology: Tubulin acetylation and cell motility. Nature 421, 230.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao, W., Kruse, J.-P., Tang, Y., Jung, S.Y., Qin, J., Gu, W., 2008. Negative regulation of the deacetylase SIRT1 by DBC1. Nature 451, 587–590.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonilla, L.L., Teitsworth, S.W., 2010. Nonlinear Wave Methods for Charge Transport. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Drame, E.R., Irby, D.J. (Eds.), 2016. Black Participatory Research: Power, Identity, and the Struggle for Justice in Education. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Deckert, K., 2011. Corporate Criminal Liability in France, in: Pieth, M., Ivory, R. (Eds.), Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 147–176.

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. Australia’s 2030 Climate Target Puts Us In The Race, But At The Back [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australia-s-2030-climate-target-puts-us-race-back/ (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. Rail Grant Oversight: Greater Adherence to Leading Practices Needed to Improve Grants Management (No. GAO-16-544). 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

Brient, R., 2009. Performance considerations for Philippe Gaubert’s “Madrigal” (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hubbard, B., 2017. Another Casualty of the Syrian War: Drinking Water in Damascus. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van den Bogaard, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Sato and Clevers, 2013; van den Bogaard, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sato and Clevers, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2008)

About the journal

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