How to format your references using the Journal of Pest Science citation style

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

Frazzetto G (2012) Neuroscience: Powerful acts. Nature 482:466–467

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray J, Druker B (2012) Genomics: the breast cancer landscape. Nature 486:328–329

A journal article with 3 authors

Larson KM, Bodin P, Gomberg J (2003) Using 1-Hz GPS data to measure deformations caused by the Denali fault earthquake. Science 300:1421–1424

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Religa TL, Markson JS, Mayor U, et al (2005) Solution structure of a protein denatured state and folding intermediate. Nature 437:1053–1056

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharma YC (2011) A Guide to the Economic Removal of Metals from Aqueous Solutions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Conner WC, Fraissard J (eds) (2006) Fluid Transport in Nanoporous Materials. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Peters MA (2015) “A Demand for Philosophy”: Interpretation, Educational Research, and Transformative Practice. In: Smeyers P, Bridges D, Burbules NC, Griffiths M (eds) International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 67–77

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 Pest Science.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Humans Continue To Evolve, Despite Lower Mortality and Fertility Rates. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lower-mortality-and-fertility-rates-shouldnt-slow-natural-selection-down/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1996) [Comments on Referral of NASA Subcontractors’ Claims to Congress]. 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

Senaga KA (2016) Tasteless, cheap, and southern? The rise and decline of the farm-raised catfish industry. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Broderick JT Jr, George RM (2010) A Nation of Do-It-Yourself Lawyers. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frazzetto 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Frazzetto 2012; Gray and Druker 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gray and Druker 2012)
Three or more authors: (Religa et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pest Science
Abbreviation	J. Pest Sci. (2004)
ISSN (print)	1612-4758
ISSN (online)	1612-4766
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science