How to format your references using the Insectes Sociaux citation style

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

McSwain MV (2014) Astrophysics: Black hole found orbiting a fast rotator. Nature 505:296–297

A journal article with 2 authors

Dennis C, Surridge C (2000) Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Introduction. Nature 408:791

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu S, Shima T, Hou Z (2014) Carbon-carbon bond cleavage and rearrangement of benzene by a trinuclear titanium hydride. Nature 512:413–415

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brownell RL Jr, Tillman MF, di Sciara GN, et al (2000) Further scrutiny of scientific whaling. Science 290:1696a

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rieth M, Krämer N (2016) Hygiene in der Arzneimittelproduktion. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Pokorski M (ed) (2015) Neurotransmitter Interactions and Cognitive Function. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Corbetta S, Fornaciari W (2013) Exploiting Thermal Coupling Information in MPSoC Dynamic Thermal Management. In: Kubátová H, Hochberger C, Daněk M, Sick B (eds) Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2013: 26th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, February 19-22, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 50–61

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 Insectes Sociaux.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Little-Known History Of Secrecy And Censorship In Wake Of Atomic Bombings. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/little-known-history-secrecy-and-censorship-wake-atomic-bombings/. 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 (2004) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Ballard KJ (2012) Frequent factors for psychiatric hospital readmission. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hardy M (2017) After Storm, Houston Hopes to Regain Tourism Momentum. New York Times TR2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McSwain 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Dennis and Surridge 2000; McSwain 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dennis and Surridge 2000)
Three or more authors: (Brownell et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Insectes Sociaux
Abbreviation	Insectes Soc.
ISSN (print)	0020-1812
ISSN (online)	1420-9098
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science