How to format your references using the Annual Review of Entomology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Entomology. 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

Leisinger K. 2015. Business needs to embrace sustainability targets. Nature. 528(7581):165

A journal article with 2 authors

Breitkreutz A, Tyers M. 2006. Cell signaling. A sophisticated scaffold wields a new trick. Science. 311(5762):789–90

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang J, Timusk T, Carbotte JP. 2007. Scanning-tunnelling spectra of cuprates. Nature. 446(7132):E3-4

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He Y, Ye T, Su M, Zhang C, Ribbe AE, et al. 2008. Hierarchical self-assembly of DNA into symmetric supramolecular polyhedra. Nature. 452(7184):198–201

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Loriaux DL. 2016. A Biographical History of Endocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Herrling PL, Matter A, Rudin M, eds. 2005. Imaging in Drug Discovery and Early Clinical Trials, Vol. 62. Basel: Birkhäuser. X, 392 p. 87 illus., 26 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Maybodi M, Hertle RW, Bachynski BN. 2006. Ocular Motility Disorders. In Handbook of Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology, ed KW Wright, PH Spiegel, LS Thompson, pp. 107–203. New York, NY: Springer

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 Annual Review of Entomology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Fly Through Space with this Awesome Interactive Video. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/fly-through-space-free-awesome-interactive-video/

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. 1991. Transition From School to Work: Linking Education and Worksite Training. HRD-91-105, 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

Rodriguez SG. 2010. Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284. Doctoral dissertation thesis. 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

Crow K. 2003. Never-Never Land. New York Times, Aug. 31, p. 141

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (3, 4).
This sentence cites four references (3, 6–8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Entomology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0066-4170
ISSN (online)	1545-4487
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science