How to format your references using the Journal of Pollination Ecology citation style

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

Slavin JA (2012) Planetary science. A dynamic twist in the tail. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336:548–549.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding B, Seeman NC (2006) Operation of a DNA robot arm inserted into a 2D DNA crystalline substrate. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314:1583–1585.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chaudhuri J, Khuong C, Alt FW (2004) Replication protein A interacts with AID to promote deamination of somatic hypermutation targets. Nature 430:992–998.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Searchinger T, Heimlich R, Houghton RA, Dong F, Elobeid A, Fabiosa J, Tokgoz S, Hayes D, Yu T-H (2008) Use of U.S. croplands for biofuels increases greenhouse gases through emissions from land-use change. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319:1238–1240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hines M (2015) Marketing implant dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tymieniecka A-T, Trutty-Coohill P (Eds) (2016) The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen HM, Naidu DS (2014) Optimal Power Conversion of Standalone Wind Energy Conversion Systems Using Fuzzy Adaptive Control. In: Kim HK, Ao S-I, Amouzegar MA, Rieger BB (eds) IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies: Special Issue of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2012. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 51–66.

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 Pollination Ecology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Lithium-Oxygen Battery May Spell The End Of The Age Of Oil. IFLScience [online] URL: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/lithium-oxygen-battery-may-spell-the-end-of-the-age-of-oil/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1994) Education Reform: School-Based Management Results in Changes in Instruction and Budgeting. 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

Patel VM (2010) Sparse and redundant representations for inverse problems and recognition. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

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

Crow K (2001) Students Take On Whooshing Traffic. 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 (Slavin 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ding & Seeman 2006; Slavin 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ding & Seeman 2006)
Three or more authors: (Searchinger et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pollination Ecology
Abbreviation	J. Pollinat. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	1920-7603
Scope