How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Insect Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Insect Science. 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

Vela C: Turn Spain’s budget crisis into an opportunity. Nature 2012, 486:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aqvist J, Luzhkov V: Ion permeation mechanism of the potassium channel. Nature 2000, 404:881–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hartgerink JD, Beniash E, Stupp SI: Self-assembly and mineralization of peptide-amphiphile nanofibers. Science 2001, 294:1684–1688.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cooper OR, Parrish DD, Stohl A, Trainer M, Nédélec P, Thouret V, Cammas JP, Oltmans SJ, Johnson BJ, Tarasick D, et al.: Increasing springtime ozone mixing ratios in the free troposphere over western North America. Nature 2010, 463:344–348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazzi B: Treasury Finance and Development Banking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Canetta L, Redaelli C, Flores M (Eds): Digital Factory for Human-oriented Production Systems: The Integration of International Research Projects. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Caffrey M: The DBA as Designer. In Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table. Edited by Finnigan P, Geist R, Gorbachev A, Gorman T, Green C, Hooper C, Lewis J, Litchfield N, Morton K, Sands R, et al. Apress; 2010:73–110.

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 Current Opinion in Insect Science.

Blog post

Andrew E: FDA Approves Tech That Helps Blind People “See” With Their Tongue. IFLScience 2015,

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: Aviation Security: Commercially Available Advanced Explosives Detection Devices. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crowley KM: Dynamics of Creativity: A Study of Early Drug Discovery Scientists’ Experience of Creativity. 2019,

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

MacFARQUHAR N: Chechen Links Nemtsov Killing to Charlie Hebdo Cartoons. New York Times 2015,

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Opinion in Insect Science
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Insect Sci.
ISSN (print)	2214-5745
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science