How to format your references using the Nota Lepidopterologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nota Lepidopterologica. 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

Ellsworth WL (2013) Injection-induced earthquakes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 1225942.

A journal article with 2 authors

Castaneda J, Matzuk MM (2015) DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. Toward a rapid and reversible male pill. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350: 385–386.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mongillo G, Barak O, Tsodyks M (2008) Synaptic theory of working memory. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 1543–1546.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liang Q, Monetti C, Shutova MV, Neely EJ, Hacibekiroglu S, Yang H, Kim C, Zhang P, Li C, Nagy K, Mileikovsky M, Gyongy I, Sung H-K, Nagy A (2018) Linking a cell-division gene and a suicide gene to define and improve cell therapy safety. Nature.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimann RB, Lehmann HD (2015) Bioceramic Coatings for Medical Implants. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Bull L, Bernadó-Mansilla E, Holmes J (Eds) (2008) 125 Learning Classifier Systems in Data Mining. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, IX, 230 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Dunger DB, Salgin B, Ong KK (2009) Early Childhood Contributions to Insulin Resistance. In: Zeitler PS, Nadeau KJ (Eds), Insulin Resistance: Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 81–92.

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 Nota Lepidopterologica.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Could measles cure cancer? Uh, not exactly…. IFLScience.

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 (1990) NASA ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. 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

Popoveniuc S (2009) A framework for secure mixnet-based electronic voting. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Poniewozik J (2017) Politics Beyond the Scripted. 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 (Ellsworth 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Ellsworth 2013, Castaneda and Matzuk 2015).

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

Two authors: (Castaneda and Matzuk 2015)
Three or more authors: (Liang et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nota Lepidopterologica
ISSN (print)	0342-7536
ISSN (online)	2367-5365
Scope