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

Macarthur D (2012) Methods: Face up to false positives. Nature 487:427–428.

A journal article with 2 authors

von Messling V, Cattaneo R (2012) Virology. A henipavirus vaccine in sight. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337:651–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fournier AE, GrandPre T, Strittmatter SM (2001) Identification of a receptor mediating Nogo-66 inhibition of axonal regeneration. Nature 409:341–346.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li Q, Zhang W, Miljanić OS, Sue C-H, Zhao Y-L, Liu L, Knobler CB, Stoddart JF, Yaghi OM (2009) Docking in metal-organic frameworks. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325:855–859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris A (2008) A Practical Guide to Reliable Finite Element Modelling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Blockeel H, Kersting K, Nijssen S, Železný F (Eds) (2013) Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 23-27, 2013, Proceedings, Part III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Witelski T, Bowen M (2015) Self-Similar Scaling Solutions of Differential Equations. In: Bowen M (ed) Methods of Mathematical Modelling: Continuous Systems and Differential Equations. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 113–125.

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

Andrew E (2015) Is This Really What A Big Mac Does To Your Body In An Hour? IFLScience [online] URL: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/really-what-big-mac-does-your-body-hour/ (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 (2005) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Education Should Provide Additional Guidance to Help States Smoothly Transition Children to Preschool. 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

Mikhailik Y (2013) Longing Limned. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Sisario B (2017) The Chef Providing a Comic Garnish to the Grammys. New York Times:C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macarthur 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Macarthur 2012; von Messling & Cattaneo 2012).

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

Two authors: (von Messling & Cattaneo 2012)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2009)

About the journal

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