How to format your references using the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology citation style

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

Moraes, M., 2011. Perspective: Lessons from Brazil. Nature 474, S25.

A journal article with 2 authors

Young, L.J., Barrett, C.E., 2015. Neuroscience. Can oxytocin treat autism? Science 347, 825–826.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C., de Grijs, R., Deng, L., 2014. The exclusion of a significant range of ages in a massive star cluster. Nature 516, 367–369.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ito, T., Wellmer, F., Yu, H., Das, P., Ito, N., Alves-Ferreira, M., Riechmann, J.L., Meyerowitz, E.M., 2004. The homeotic protein AGAMOUS controls microsporogenesis by regulation of SPOROCYTELESS. Nature 430, 356–360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon, T., Grossman, S., 2007. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Angelini, C., Rancoita, P.M.V., Rovetta, S. (Eds.), 2016. Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: 12th International Meeting, CIBB 2015, Naples, Italy, September 10-12, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Luciano, J.S., Sayogo, D.S., Ran, W., Depaula, N., Jarman, H., Luna-Reyes, L.F., Tayi, G.K., Zhang, J., Hrdinova, J., Andersen, D.L., Andersen, D.F., Pardo, T.A., 2016. Using Ontologies to Develop and Test a Certification and Inspection Data Infrastructure Building Block, in: Jarman, H., Luna-Reyes, L.F. (Eds.), Private Data and Public Value: Governance, Green Consumption, and Sustainable Supply Chains. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 89–107.

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 Invertebrate Pathology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. The Best Snaps From The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2015 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1993. Federal Research: Super Collider Is Over Budget and Behind Schedule (No. RCED-93-87). 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

Weber, T.R., 2010. Tailored charged particle beams from single-component plasmas (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Poniewozik, J., 2016. A Vanished Woman’s Strange Return. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moraes, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Moraes, 2011; Young and Barrett, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Young and Barrett, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ito et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
Abbreviation	J. Invertebr. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2011
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics