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

Chapman T (2004) Breathing life into chemistry. Nature 430:948–949.

A journal article with 2 authors

May M, Brody H (2015) Nature Index 2015 Global. Nature 522:S1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bejan A, Ziaei S, Lorente S (2014) Evolution: why all plumes and jets evolve to round cross sections. Scientific reports 4:4730.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Diebel CE, Proksch R, Green CR, Neilson P, Walker MM (2000) Magnetite defines a vertebrate magnetoreceptor. Nature 406:299–302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jevon P (2012) Paediatric Advanced Life Support. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Fernández-Manjón B, Sánchez-Pérez JM, Gómez-Pulido JA, Vega-Rodríguez MA, Bravo-Rodríguez J (Eds) (2007) Computers and Education: E-Learning, From Theory to Practice. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Marzin J, Daviron B, Rafflegeau S (2015) Family Farming and Other Forms of Agriculture. In: Sourisseau J-M (ed) Family Farming and the Worlds to Come. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–89.

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) Pluto’s Icy Heart May Have Rolled The Dwarf Planet Over, Hinting At A Vast Underground Ocean. IFLScience [online] URL: https://www.iflscience.com/space/plutos-icy-heart-may-have-rolled-the-dwarf-planet-over-hinting-at-a-vast-underground-ocean/ (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 (2000) Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comments on the Proposed Cyber Security Information Act of 2000. 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

Murdock JM (2017) Lethe and the Twin Bodhisattvas of Forgiveness and Forgetfulness. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA

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

Feeney K (2007) Order at the Court. New York Times:14NJ19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman 2004; May & Brody 2015).

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

Two authors: (May & Brody 2015)
Three or more authors: (Diebel et al. 2000)

About the journal

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