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

Lovell-Badge R (2001) The future for stem cell research. Nature 414:88–91

A journal article with 2 authors

Bercovici D, Ricard Y (2014) Plate tectonics, damage and inheritance. Nature 508:513–516

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackermann M, Stearns SC, Jenal U (2003) Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division. Science 300:1920

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schneider T, Kruse T, Wimmer R, et al (2010) Plectasin, a fungal defensin, targets the bacterial cell wall precursor Lipid II. Science 328:1168–1172

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corrigan PW, Roe D, Tsang HWH (2011) Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Fouquet Y, Lacroix D (eds) (2014) Deep Marine Mineral Resources. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Khan QJA, Benkherouf L, Smaoui N (2008) Stability and Optimal Harvesting in a Stage Structure Predator-Prey Switching Strategy. In: Hosking RJ, Venturino E (eds) Aspects of Mathematical Modelling: Applications in Science, Medicine, Economics and Management. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp 65–80

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

Taub B (2016) Humans’ Tendency To Murder Each Other May Be An Evolutionary Trait. In: IFLScience. 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 (1982) Prisoners Receiving Social Security and Other Federal Retirement, Disability, and Education Benefits. 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

Clayton-Clark C (2012) Academic performance strategies implemented by successful California superintendents in low-performing school districts. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Brantley B (2017) There’s Lust in Her Heart, for Language. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lovell-Badge 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lovell-Badge 2001; Bercovici and Ricard 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bercovici and Ricard 2014)
Three or more authors: (Schneider et al. 2010)

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