How to format your references using the Annals of the Entomological Society of America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 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

Triendl R. 2002. Breaking down biological borders. Nature. 418(6899):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oganov AR, Ono S. 2004. Theoretical and experimental evidence for a post-perovskite phase of MgSiO3 in Earth’s D" layer. Nature. 430(6998):445–448.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bannani A, Bobisch C, Möller R. 2007. Ballistic electron microscopy of individual molecules. Science. 315(5820):1824–1828.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kessler JD, Kahle KT, Sun T, et al. 2012. A SUMOylation-dependent transcriptional subprogram is required for Myc-driven tumorigenesis. Science. 335(6066):348–353.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane MJ. 2015. The Mission-Driven Venture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yor M, editor. 2008. Aspects of Mathematical Finance. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chung EG, Schladow SG, Perez-Losada J, et al. 2008. A linked hydrodynamic and water quality model for the Salton Sea. In: Hurlbert SH, editor. The Salton Sea Centennial Symposium: Proceedings of a Symposium Celebrating a Century of Symbiosis Among Agriculture, Wildlife and People, 1905–2005, held in San Diego, California, USA, March 2005. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 57–75.

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 Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014 Sep 16. Students Develop Cheap Water Treatment System Using Chip Packets. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/students-develop-cheap-water-treatment-system-using-chip-packets/.

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. 1983. The Evaluation Synthesis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: 088890.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Caprile JA. 2016. The geochemical influence of trace element concentrations from marine sedimentary bedrock on freshwater streams in the western Transverse Mountain Ranges [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

(nyt) SK. 2003 Feb 22. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Judge From 1993 Standoff Returns To Post. New York Times.:A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Triendl 2002, Oganov and Ono 2004).

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

Two authors: (Oganov and Ono 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kessler et al. 2012)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Abbreviation	Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am.
ISSN (print)	0013-8746
ISSN (online)	1938-2901
Scope	Insect Science