How to format your references using the Chemoecology citation style

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

Jokipii JR (2005) Astronomy. Our interstellar neighborhood. Science 307:1424–1425

A journal article with 2 authors

DeKosky ST, Marek K (2003) Looking backward to move forward: early detection of neurodegenerative disorders. Science 302:830–834

A journal article with 3 authors

Qian H, Wang X, Zhang Y (2012) Comment on “Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.” Science 335:1573; author reply 1573

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhao H, Holladay JE, Brown H, Zhang ZC (2007) Metal chlorides in ionic liquid solvents convert sugars to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural. Science 316:1597–1600

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hull B (2010) Manufacturing Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Brugnoli A (ed) (2010) Dangerous Materials: Control, Risk Prevention and Crisis Management: From New Global Threats to New Global Responses: A Picture of Transition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Loosemore R, Goertzel B (2012) Why an Intelligence Explosion is Probable. In: Eden AH, Moor JH, Søraker JH, Steinhart E (eds) Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–98

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 Chemoecology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Philae Phones Home – But The Mission Is About To Get Riskier. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-phones-home-mission-about-get-riskier/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2000) FAA Computer Security: Concerns Remain Due to Personnel and Other Continuing Weaknesses. 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

Reig MA (2008) Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Walsh MW (2011) Claiming Fraud in A.I.G. Bailout, Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Names 3 Companies. New York Times B6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jokipii 2005).
This sentence cites two references (DeKosky and Marek 2003; Jokipii 2005).

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

Two authors: (DeKosky and Marek 2003)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemoecology
Abbreviation	Chemoecology
ISSN (print)	0937-7409
ISSN (online)	1423-0445
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Biochemistry