How to format your references using the International Journal of Odonatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Odonatology. 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

von Bergmann, K. (2015). Physics. Magnetic bubbles with a twist. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6245), 234–235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rader, D. J., & Daugherty, A. (2008). Translating molecular discoveries into new therapies for atherosclerosis. Nature, 451(7181), 904–913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jung, H., Green, H. W., II, & Dobrzhinetskaya, L. F. (2004). Intermediate-depth earthquake faulting by dehydration embrittlement with negative volume change. Nature, 428(6982), 545–549.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Davidson, A. J., Ernst, P., Wang, Y., Dekens, M. P. S., Kingsley, P. D., Palis, J., Korsmeyer, S. J., Daley, G. Q., & Zon, L. I. (2003). cdx4 mutants fail to specify blood progenitors and can be rescued by multiple hox genes. Nature, 425(6955), 300–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krimpmann, A. (2015). Principles of Group Accounting under IFRS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mukhopadhyay, C., Akhilesh, K. B., Srinivasan, R., Gurtoo, A., Ramachandran, P., Iyer, P. P., Mathirajan, M., & Bala Subrahmanya, M. H. (Eds.). (2013). Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Emerging Agenda for Technology Management. Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Carey, F. A., & Sundberg, R. J. (2007). Polar Addition and Elimination Reactions. In R. J. Sundberg (Ed.), Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part A: Structure and Mechanisms (pp. 473–577). Springer US.

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 International Journal of Odonatology.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. (2017, March 23). New Stem Cell Method Produces Millions of Human Brain Cells In Days. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1992). Strategies to Improve Communication Between Program and Financial Managers (156238). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters, A. S. (2017). Bread and Washoku: Unveiling Japanese Identity Through the Necessity of Bread Baking [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, September 18). Northrop Grumman to Buy Orbital ATK for $7.8 Billion. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Bergmann, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rader & Daugherty, 2008; von Bergmann, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rader & Daugherty, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Davidson et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Odonatology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Odonatol.
ISSN (print)	1388-7890
ISSN (online)	2159-6719
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science