How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Entomology citation style

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

Brooks JR, 2015. HYDROLOGY. Water, bound and mobile. Science 349, 138–139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joughin I, Tulaczyk S, 2002. Positive mass balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarctica. Science 295, 476–480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nuth JA 3rd, Hill HG, Kletetschka G, 2000. Determining the ages of comets from the fraction of crystalline dust. Nature 406, 275–276.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schliehe C, Juarez BH, Pelletier M, Jander S, Greshnykh D, Nagel M, Meyer A, Foerster S, Kornowski A, Klinke C, Weller H, 2010. Ultrathin PbS sheets by two-dimensional oriented attachment. Science 329, 550–553.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silk RD, Lintott JW, 2011. Managing Foundations and Charitable Trusts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Robillard MP, Maalej W, Walker RJ, Zimmermann T (Eds.), 2014. Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun Y, Lu Y, 2006. A Grid-Based Subspace Clustering Algorithm for High-Dimensional Data Streams, in: Feng, L., Wang, G., Zeng, C., Huang, R. (Eds.), Web Information Systems – WISE 2006 Workshops: WISE 2006 International Workshops, Wuhan, China, October 23-26, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 37–48.

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 Journal of Applied Entomology.

Blog post

Andrew E, 2015. Scientists Use Physics To Read Scrolls From Herculaneum – But Why Do We Care? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-use-physics-read-scrolls-herculaneum-why-do-we-care/ (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, 1996. Job Corps: Comparison of Federal Program With State Youth Training Initiatives ( No. HEHS-96-92). 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

Hausmann RC, 2015. Organizing Ecosystems for Social Innovation: The Relationality of Contexts and Mechanisms in a Social Entrepreneurship Network (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

(nyt) SK, 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Compensation For Theater Siege. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Joughin and Tulaczyk 2002; Brooks 2015).

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

Two authors: (Joughin and Tulaczyk 2002)
Three or more authors: (Schliehe et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Entomology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0931-2048
ISSN (online)	1439-0418
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science