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

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

Hoag H. 2003. Atlantic cod meet icy death. Nature. 422(6934):792.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheppard SS, Trujillo CA. 2006. A thick cloud of Neptune Trojans and their colors. Science. 313(5786):511–514.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shankar N, Baghdayan AS, Gilmore MS. 2002. Modulation of virulence within a pathogenicity island in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis. Nature. 417(6890):746–750.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Quigley DA, To MD, Pérez-Losada J, Pelorosso FG, Mao J-H, Nagase H, Ginzinger DG, Balmain A. 2009. Genetic architecture of mouse skin inflammation and tumour susceptibility. Nature. 458(7237):505–508.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pike A. 2015. Origination. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Humar A. 2006. Atlas of Organ Transplantation. Matas AJ, Payne WD, editors. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Weir EK, Hong Z, Varghese A, Nelson DP, Olschewski A. 2005. Redox Signaling in Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction. In: Bhattacharya J, editor. Cell Signaling in Vascular Inflammation. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; p. 27–33.

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 Pest Management.

Blog post

Fang J. 2014. Fin cams reveal the secret lives of sharks. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fin-cams-reveal-secret-lives-sharks/

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. 2000. Charter Schools: Limited Access to Facility Financing. Washington, DC: 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

Greenfield Pace JA. 2016. The influence of accountability and commitment on team performance of airline flight crews [Doctoral dissertation]. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Schwartz J. 2016. Picking a Portfolio With Pokéballs. New York Times.:BU19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag 2003; Sheppard and Trujillo 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sheppard and Trujillo 2006)
Three or more authors: (Quigley et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Pest Management
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pest Manag.
ISSN (print)	0967-0874
ISSN (online)	1366-5863
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science