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

Koen D. 2004. Nuts and bolts. Seeking feedback. Nature. 430(6999):592.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rutherford AW, Boussac A. 2004. Biochemistry. Water photolysis in biology. Science. 303(5665):1782–1784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wigginton N, Yeston J, Malakoff D. 2012. Working with waste. More treasure than trash. Introduction. Science. 337(6095):662–663.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mullighan CG, Phillips LA, Su X, et al. 2008. Genomic analysis of the clonal origins of relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Science. 322(5906):1377–1380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donham KJ, Thelin A. 2016. Agricultural Medicine. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lee R, Ormandjieva O, Abran A, et al., editors. 2010. Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Studies in Computational Intelligence). XI, 255 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Santos RS, Morato T, Barriga FJAS. 2012. Increasing Pressure at the Bottom of the Ocean. In: Mendonca A, Cunha A, Chakrabarti R, editors. Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity: A Comprehensive View. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 69–81.

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 E. 2014 Jun 9. Paraplegic In “Ironman Suit” Will Take The First Kick In The 2014 World Cup. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/paraplegic-ironman-suit-will-take-first-kick-2014-world-cup/.

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. 2012. Highway Projects: Survey of State Departments of Transportation (GAO-12-637SP, June 2012), an E-supplement to GAO-12-593. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-12-637SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

De La Cruz E. 2014. School social work programing for an elementary school: A grant writing project [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

Kishkovsky S. 2003 May 28. Warm and Weird Toasts to Russia’s Crown Jewel; St. Petersburg Celebrates 300 Years With Everything From Pornography to Preservation. New York Times.:E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Koen, 2004; Rutherford and Boussac, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rutherford and Boussac, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mullighan et al., 2008)

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