How to format your references using the Journal of Orthoptera Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Orthoptera Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Marx V (2015) The DNA of a nation. Nature 524: 503–505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mitra PP, Stark JB (2001) Nonlinear limits to the information capacity of optical fibre communications. Nature 411: 1027–1030.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mukhopadhyay S, Farley KA, Montanari A (2001) A short duration of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event: evidence from extraterrestrial helium-3. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291: 1952–1955.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Foroughi J, Spinks GM, Wallace GG, Oh J, Kozlov ME, Fang S, Mirfakhrai T, Madden JDW, Shin MK, Kim SJ, Baughman RH (2011) Torsional carbon nanotube artificial muscles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334: 494–497.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jackson J (2012) Political Oratory and Cartooning. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Liu W, Li Q, W.H. Lau R (Eds) (2006) 4181 Advances in Web Based Learning – ICWL 2006: 5th International Conference, Penang, Malaysia, July 19-21, 2006. Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIV, 378 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Severs NJ, Dupont E, Kaba R, Thomas N (2005) Gap Junction and Connexin Remodeling in Human Heart Disease. In: Winterhager E (Ed.), Gap Junctions in Development and Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 57–82.

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 Orthoptera Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) This Is What Viper Venom Does To Blood. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-does-viper-venom-do-blood/ (October 30, 2018).

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 (2009) National Transportation System: Options and Analytical Tools to Strengthen DOT’s Approach to Supporting Communities’ Access to the System. 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

Farrugia TJ (2010) Abundance, habitat use and movement patterns of the shovelnose guitarfish (Rhinobatus productus) in a restored Southern California estuary. Doctoral dissertation. 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

McMORROW R, Forsythe M (2017) Chinese Tech Tycoon to Leave Troubled Company. New York Times: B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Mitra and Stark 2001, Marx 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mitra and Stark 2001)
Three or more authors: (Foroughi et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Orthoptera Research
ISSN (print)	1082-6467
ISSN (online)	1937-2426
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