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

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

Rempe G. 2014. Quantum optics. A photon steers a photon with an atom. Science. 345(6199):871.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts DL, Solow AR. 2003. Flightless birds: when did the dodo become extinct? Nature. 426(6964):245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hilgenkamp H, Moshchalkov VV, Kes P. 2003. Physics. Flux quanta on the move. Science. 302(5648):1159–1160.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fujita M, Takahashi S, Tanaka Y, et al. 2005. Simultaneous inhibition and redistribution of spontaneous light emission in photonic crystals. Science. 308(5726):1296–1298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Potter L. 2012. The Life of William Shakespeare. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ginat DT, Small JE, Schaefer PW, editors. 2015. Neuroimaging Pharmacopoeia. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XVIII, 382 p. 317 illus., 31 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Stathi S, Roscini C. 2016. Identity and Acculturation Processes in Multicultural Societies. In: McKeown S, Haji R, Ferguson N, editors. Understanding Peace and Conflict Through Social Identity Theory: Contemporary Global Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (Peace Psychology Book Series). p. 55–69.

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 Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014 Dec 12. Scientists May Have Finally Detected A Dark Matter Signal. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-scientists-have-finally-detected-dark-matter-signal/.

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. 2007. Transportation Security: DHS Efforts to Eliminate Redundant Background Check Investigations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-07-756.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yahil RJ. 2010. The role of interleukin-19 in interleukin-10 production by regulatory macrophages [Doctoral dissertation]. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Dwyer J. 2015 Apr 17. A Police Shot to a Boy’s Back, Echoing Since ’73. 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 (Rempe, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Roberts and Solow, 2003; Rempe, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Solow, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Fujita et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Insect Science
ISSN (online)	1536-2442
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