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

Powell K (2005) Getting schooled. Nature 435:850–851

A journal article with 2 authors

Rahman MA, Halfar J (2014) First evidence of chitin in calcified coralline algae: new insights into the calcification process of Clathromorphum compactum. Sci Rep 4:6162

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson ME, Hsu M, Conboy IM (2008) Imbalance between pSmad3 and Notch induces CDK inhibitors in old muscle stem cells. Nature 454:528–532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ley RE, Turnbaugh PJ, Klein S, Gordon JI (2006) Microbial ecology: human gut microbes associated with obesity. Nature 444:1022–1023

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernando XN (2014) Radio Over Fiber for Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Flegel U, Bruschi D (eds) (2009) Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 6th International Conference, DIMVA 2009, Como, Italy, July 9-10, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H (2012) Om META-NET. In: Rehm G, Uszkoreit H (eds) The Danish Language in the Digital Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 32–32

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

Hamilton K (2017) Claim Of Link Between Intelligence And Cannabis Use In Adolescence Provides Fresh Headache For Researcher. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/claim-of-link-between-intelligence-and-cannabis-use-in-adolescence-provides-fresh-headache-for-researcher/. 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) Can the Federal Communications Commission Successfully Implement Its Computer II Decision? 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

Doyle JJ (2012) Under the influence: High risk social networks and recidivism. 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

St. John Kelly E (1998) Needles Click to a Younger Beat. New York Times 144

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Powell 2005; Rahman and Halfar 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rahman and Halfar 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ley et al. 2006)

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