How to format your references using the Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 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

Malakoff, D., 2014. Gas revolution. The gas surge. Introduction. Science 344, 1464–1467.

A journal article with 2 authors

Michel-Kerjan, E., Kunreuther, H., 2011. Disaster management. Redesigning flood insurance. Science 333, 408–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rapp, R.P., Shimizu, N., Norman, M.D., 2003. Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite. Nature 425, 605–609.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, J.-J., Li, C., Zhang, B.-Y., Cressman, R., Tao, Y., 2014. The role of institutional incentives and the exemplar in promoting cooperation. Sci. Rep. 4, 6421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rezzoug, A., El-Hadi Zaïm, M., 2011. Non-conventional Electrical Machines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Diamantaras, K., Duch, W., Iliadis, L.S. (Eds.), 2010. Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010: 20th International Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 15-18, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Pedreschi, D., Bonchi, F., Turini, F., Verykios, V.S., Atzori, M., Malin, B., Moelans, B., Saygin, Y., 2008. Privacy Protection: Regulations and Technologies, Opportunities and Threats, in: Giannotti, F., Pedreschi, Dino (Eds.), Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: Geographic Knowledge Discovery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 101–119.

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 Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Tiny Beating Hearts Grown In The Lab [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tiny-beating-hearts-grown-lab/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Longer Combination Trucks: Driver Controls and Equipment Inspection Should Be Improved (No. RCED-94-21). 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

Tucker, C.M., 2010. End-stage renal disease patients and dialysis: Can consistent transportation influence quality of life and treatment compliance? A grant writing project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Barron, J., 2017. When a Brooklyn Graveyard Can’t Expand Outward, It Looks Within. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malakoff, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Malakoff, 2014; Michel-Kerjan and Kunreuther, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Michel-Kerjan and Kunreuther, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Abbreviation	Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0965-1748
Scope	Insect Science Biochemistry Molecular Biology