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

Smaglik, P., 2003. Upping the ante. Nature 424, 857.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hibbs, R.E., Gouaux, E., 2011. Principles of activation and permeation in an anion-selective Cys-loop receptor. Nature 474, 54–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clark, T.A., Sugnet, C.W., Ares, M., Jr, 2002. Genomewide analysis of mRNA processing in yeast using splicing-specific microarrays. Science 296, 907–910.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sturgill, D., Zhang, Y., Parisi, M., Oliver, B., 2007. Demasculinization of X chromosomes in the Drosophila genus. Nature 450, 238–241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1994. Guidelines for Implementing Process Safety Management Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Javidi, B. (Ed.), 2005. Optical and Digital Techniques for Information Security, Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Day, J.W., Hall, C., 2016. The Wealth of Nature Is the Wealth of Nations: Ecosystem Services and Their Value to Society, in: Hall, C. (Ed.), America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions: Surviving the 21st Century Megatrends. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 115–135.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. Modern Chemistry Might Have Started A Few Decades Before We Thought [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, 1984. Attrition of Scientists and Engineers at Seven Agencies (No. RCED-84-142). 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

Katukuri, J., 2012. Relationship Extraction and Link Discovery from Biomedical Literature (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

Dwyer, J., 2016. Cruz’s Jab at Trump, and the Politics of Hypocrisy. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hibbs and Gouaux, 2011; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hibbs and Gouaux, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sturgill et al., 2007)

About the journal

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