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

Connerney, J., 2013. Solar system: Saturn’s ring rain. Nature 496, 178–179.

A journal article with 2 authors

Samet, J.M., Wipfli, H.L., 2010. Globe still in grip of addiction. Nature 463, 1020–1021.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ortega, F., Escaso, F., Sanz, J.L., 2010. A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the lower cretaceous of Spain. Nature 467, 203–206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gulde, S., Riebe, M., Lancaster, G.P.T., Becher, C., Eschner, J., Häffner, H., Schmidt-Kaler, F., Chuang, I.L., Blatt, R., 2003. Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm on an ion-trap quantum computer. Nature 421, 48–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lachin, J.M., 2010. Biostatistical Methods: The Assessment of Relative Risks, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mozaffari, M.S. (Ed.), 2013. New Strategies to Advance Pre/Diabetes Care: Integrative Approach by PPPM, Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Tonsberg, T.A., Henderson, J.S., 2016. The Universality of Praxeology, in: Henderson, J.S. (Ed.), Understanding Leadership in Complex Systems: A Praxeological Perspective, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 9–12.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Tiniest Insect Genome Sequenced [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiniest-insect-genome-sequenced/ (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. Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed (No. GAO-17-88). 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

Usborne, E.L., 2012. Sediment and phosphorus dynamics behind weirs in agricultural drainage ditches (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Lee, L., 2013. Connect the Blocks. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Connerney, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Connerney, 2013; Samet and Wipfli, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Samet and Wipfli, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Gulde et al., 2003)

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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