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

Lis, J.T., 2007. Imaging Drosophila gene activation and polymerase pausing in vivo. Nature 450, 198–202.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, G., Zhou, L., 2014. Zwitterionic versus canonical amino acids over the various defects in zeolites: a two-layer ONIOM calculation. Sci. Rep. 4, 6594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregory, J.M., Huybrechts, P., Raper, S.C.B., 2004. Climatology: threatened loss of the Greenland ice-sheet. Nature 428, 616.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, J., Liao, M., Imura, M., Tanaka, A., Iwai, H., Koide, Y., 2014. Low on-resistance diamond field effect transistor with high-k ZrO2 as dielectric. Sci. Rep. 4, 6395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaschke, M., Donnerhacke, K.-H., Rill, M.S., 2014. Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Brown, L. (Ed.), 2013. Pathology of the Vulva and Vagina, Essentials of Diagnostic Gynecological Pathology. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Voicu, M.-C., 2009. Computational Methods for Detecting Types of Nonlinear Dynamics, in: Mastorakis, N., Mladenov, V., Kontargyri, V.T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 2, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 35–48.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. The 5p Carrier Bag Charge Has Paved The Way For Other Waste Reduction Policies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-5p-carrier-bag-charge-has-paved-the-way-for-other-waste-reduction-policies/ (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, 2015. Critical Infrastructure Protection: Sector-Specific Agencies Need to Better Measure Cybersecurity Progress (No. GAO-16-79). 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

Lim, R.H.-J., 2017. A stylistic analysis of and performance suggestions for Robert Muczynski’s Second Piano Sonata, Opus 22 (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

Kenigsberg, B., 2016. Everyday Minutia, and Where It Leads. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lis, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Lis, 2007; Yang and Zhou, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Zhou, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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