How to format your references using the Insect Systematics and Diversity citation style

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

Palmer AR. 2004. Symmetry breaking and the evolution of development. Science. 306(5697):828–833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gillespie PG, Walker RG. 2001. Molecular basis of mechanosensory transduction. Nature. 413(6852):194–202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendoza M, Succi S, Herrmann HJ. 2013. Flow through randomly curved manifolds. Sci. Rep. 3:3106.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee B-S, Burr GW, Shelby RM, et al. 2009. Observation of the role of subcritical nuclei in crystallization of a glassy solid. Science. 326(5955):980–984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camarillo G, García-Martín MA. 2006. The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gomes LT. 2015. Fuzzy Differential Equations in Various Approaches. 1st ed. 2015. Barros LC de, Bede B, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing (SpringerBriefs in Mathematics).

A chapter in an edited book

Syed MN, Principe JC, Pardalos PM. 2012. Correntropy in Data Classification. In: Sorokin A, Murphey R, Thai MT, et al., editors. Dynamics of Information Systems: Mathematical Foundations. New York, NY: Springer. (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics). p. 81–117.

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 Systematics and Diversity.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2014 Apr 19. Embryonic Stem Cells Cloned From Adult Skin. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/embryonic-stem-cells-cloned-adult-skin/.

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. Education Grants Management: Actions Initiated to Correct Material Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: HRD-91-72.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pepper I. 2010. On the Difference between Serialism and Seriality [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

Crow K. 2001 Dec 2. Refurbishing a Courthouse, If Not Its Reputation. New York Times.:144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palmer 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gillespie and Walker 2001, Palmer 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gillespie and Walker 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Insect Systematics and Diversity
ISSN (online)	2399-3421
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