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

Smaglik P. 2008. Closing the gaps. Nature. 452(7185):382–383.

A journal article with 2 authors

von Storch H, Stehr N. 2000. Climate change in perspective. Nature. 405(6787):615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moran NA, McLaughlin HJ, Sorek R. 2009. The dynamics and time scale of ongoing genomic erosion in symbiotic bacteria. Science. 323(5912):379–382.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cattin M-F, Bersier L-F, Banasek-Richter C, et al. 2004. Phylogenetic constraints and adaptation explain food-web structure. Nature. 427(6977):835–839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vettese F. 2015. The Essential Retirement Guide. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Axelsson S. 2006. Understanding Intrusion Detection Through Visualization. Sands D, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US (Advances in Information Security). XX, 145 p. 34 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Mernier A. 2012. The Possible Role of the Energy Charter in Advancing Energy for Development in Africa. In: Toth FL, editor. Energy for Development: Resources, Technologies, Environment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. (Environment & Policy). p. 57–62.

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

Andrew D. 2016 Nov 17. Think The World’s In A Mess? Here Are Four Things You Can Do About It. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/think-the-worlds-in-a-mess-here-are-four-things-you-can-do-about-it/.

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. 2004. Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity (Supersedes AIMD-10.1.23). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-04-394G.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sponsel H. 2010. Was sagte dieser Schiller (damals)? Schillers Antworten auf seine Kritiker nach 1945 [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Billard M. 2010 Oct 21. Scouting Report. New York Times.:E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (von Storch and Stehr, 2000; Smaglik, 2008).

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

Two authors: (von Storch and Stehr, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Cattin et al., 2004)

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