How to format your references using the American Entomologist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Entomologist. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smith C. 2004. Running interference on the genome. Nature. 428(6979):225.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fulton JE, Delany ME. 2003. Genetics. Poultry genetic resources--operation rescue needed. Science. 300(5626):1667–1668.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao J, Benlekbir S, Rubinstein JL. 2015. Electron cryomicroscopy observation of rotational states in a eukaryotic V-ATPase. Nature. 521(7551):241–245.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ko M, Huang Y, Jankowska AM, et al. 2010. Impaired hydroxylation of 5-methylcytosine in myeloid cancers with mutant TET2. Nature. 468(7325):839–843.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Häussler-Combe U. 2014. Computational Methods for Reinforced Concrete Structures. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Blaschke C, Shatkay H, editors. 2010. Linking Literature, Information, and Knowledge for Biology: Workshop of the BioLink Special Interest Group, ISMB/ECCB 2009, Stockholm, June 28-29, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Rabe KM, Ghosez P. 2007. First-Principles Studies of Ferroelectric Oxides. In: Rabe KM, Ahn CH, Triscone J-M, editors. Physics of Ferroelectrics: A Modern Perspective. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. (Topics in Applied Physics). p. 117–174.

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 American Entomologist.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2017 Mar 30. A Hot Bath Has Benefits Similar To Exercise. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise/.

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. 2013. Use of Remanufactured Parts in the Federal Vehicle Fleet Is Based On a Variety of Factors. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-13-316R.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Chavez JA. 2015. Principal stress analysis of rock fracture data from the Long Beach oil field, Los Angeles basin, California [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

Barron J. 2016 Nov 3. Where Presidential Aspirations Are Finally Laid to Rest. New York Times.:C17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Fulton and Delany 2003, Smith 2004).

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

Two authors: (Fulton and Delany 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ko et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Entomologist
Abbreviation	Am. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	1046-2821
ISSN (online)	2155-9902
Scope