How to format your references using the Journal of Medical Entomology citation style

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

Maiani, L. 2010. Obituary: Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010). Nature. 467: 284.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaret, K. S., and M. Grompe. 2008. Generation and regeneration of cells of the liver and pancreas. Science. 322: 1490–1494.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tingley, M. W., L. D. Estes, and D. S. Wilcove. 2013. Ecosystems: climate change must not blow conservation off course. Nature. 500: 271–272.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choe, K.-M., T. Werner, S. Stöven, D. Hultmark, and K. V. Anderson. 2002. Requirement for a peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP) in Relish activation and antibacterial immune responses in Drosophila. Science. 296: 359–362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shelby, A. M., and C. M. McKune. 2014. Small Animal Anesthesia Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

(Computer Aided Verification: 20th International Conference, CAV 2008 Princeton, NJ, USA, July 7-14, 2008 Proceedings) . 2008. Computer Aided Verification: 20th International Conference, CAV 2008 Princeton, NJ, USA, July 7-14, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Dyke Parunak, H., S. Brueckner, E. A. Downs, and L. Sappelsa. 2013. Swarming Estimation of Realistic Mental Models, pp. 43–55. In Giardini, F., Amblard, F. (eds.), Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XIII: International Workshop, MABS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Medical Entomology.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2014. Barley Helped Early Farmers Settle the Dizzying Heights of the Tibetan Plateau. IFLScience.

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. 1992. Tax Systems Modernization: Progress Mixed In Addressing Critical Success Factors ( No. T-IMTEC-92-13). 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

Newberry, G. C. 2014. Students’ experiences with simulation education (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Walsh, M. W. 2012. New Jersey’s Pension Plan Is Said to Still Be in Trouble. New York Times. A34.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maiani 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zaret and Grompe 2008, Maiani 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zaret and Grompe 2008)
Three or more authors: (Choe et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Medical Entomology
Abbreviation	J. Med. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2585
ISSN (online)	1938-2928
Scope	Insect Science Parasitology Infectious Diseases General Veterinary