How to format your references using the Bulletin of Insectology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of Insectology. 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 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

Coontz R., 2008.- Science CAREERS. Hydrogeologists tap into demand for an irreplaceable resource.- Science (New York, N.Y.), 321: 858–859.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaplinsky N. J., Barton M. K., 2004.- Plant biology. Plant acupuncture: sticking PINs in the right places.- Science (New York, N.Y.), 306: 822–823.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin Q., Jacobsen S. B., Yamashita K., 2002.- Diverse supernova sources of pre-solar material inferred from molybdenum isotopes in meteorites.- Nature, 415: 881–883.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guan G., Wu L., Bhagat A. A., Li Z., Chen P. C. Y., Chao S., Ong C. J., Han J., 2013.- Spiral microchannel with rectangular and trapezoidal cross-sections for size based particle separation.- Scientific reports, 3: 1475.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barkham R., 2012.- Real Estate and Globalisation.- Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Gourtsoyiannis N. C., Editor., 2011.- Clinical MRI of the Abdomen: Why,How,When.- Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dragan Y. P., 2016.- Chemically-Induced Hepatocarcinogenesis, pp. 65–92. In: Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Diagnosis and Treatment (Carr B. I., Ed.).- Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Bulletin of Insectology.

Blog post

Andrew E., 2014.- IFLScience. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-pathway-rediscovered-after-100-years/ on 30 October 2018.- 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., 2014.- Computer Matching Act: OMB and Selected Agencies Need to Ensure Consistent Implementation.- 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

Watson Y. M., 2019.- Federal Managers’ Use of Evidence (Performance Measurement Data and Evaluation Results): Are We There Yet?,- Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Witz B., Wagner J., 2016.- Shortening of Games Re-Enters G.M. Talks.- New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coontz, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kaplinsky and Barton, 2004; Coontz, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Kaplinsky and Barton, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Guan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Insectology
ISSN (print)	1721-8861
Scope