How to format your references using the Journal of Hymenoptera Research citation style

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

Wunsch C (2000) Moon, tides and climate. Nature 405: 743–744.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tam WY, Ma CHE (2014) Bipolar/rod-shaped microglia are proliferating microglia with distinct M1/M2 phenotypes. Scientific reports 4: 7279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bliss TVP, Collingridge GL, Laroche S (2006) Neuroscience. ZAP and ZIP, a story to forget. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 1058–1059.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Acharya U, Patel S, Koundakjian E, Nagashima K, Han X, Acharya JK (2003) Modulating sphingolipid biosynthetic pathway rescues photoreceptor degeneration. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299: 1740–1743.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmutsky A (2010) System Design for Telecommunication Gateways. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Urbach H (Ed.) (2013) MRI in Epilepsy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIII, 270 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Syed MN, Principe JC, Pardalos PM (2012) Correntropy in Data Classification. In: Sorokin A, Murphey R, Thai MT, Pardalos PM (Eds), Dynamics of Information Systems: Mathematical Foundations. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, New York, NY, 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 Journal of Hymenoptera Research.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Parental Songs Prepare Eggs For A Hotter World. 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 (1989) Issues Related to FAA’s Effectiveness. 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

Gopalappa C (2010) Three essays on analytical models to improve early detection of cancer. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida

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

JULIA C. MEAD; Linda Saslow contributed reporting for this article (2006) A Grieving Family Questions a Police Policy. New York Times: 14LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wunsch 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wunsch 2000, Tam and Ma 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tam and Ma 2014)
Three or more authors: (Acharya et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hymenoptera Research
ISSN (print)	1070-9428
ISSN (online)	1314-2607
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