How to format your references using the Journal of Insect Conservation citation style

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

Weissman KJ (2008) Biochemistry. Anatomy of a fungal polyketide synthase. Science 320:186–187

A journal article with 2 authors

Handschin C, Spiegelman BM (2008) The role of exercise and PGC1alpha in inflammation and chronic disease. Nature 454:463–469

A journal article with 3 authors

Osborne I, Lavine M, Coontz R (2010) Materials for electronics. Looking beyond silicon. Introduction. Science 327:1595

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Woo PCY, Lam C-W, Tam EWT, et al (2014) The biosynthetic pathway for a thousand-year-old natural food colorant and citrinin in Penicillium marneffei. Sci Rep 4:6728

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shore SN (2005) The Tapestry of Modern Astrophysics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Rozenblat C, Melançon G (eds) (2013) Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Xiao JJ (2008) Applying Behavior Theories to Financial Behavior. In: Xiao JJ (ed) Handbook of Consumer Finance Research. Springer, New York, NY, pp 69–81

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 Insect Conservation.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Siberian Jays Know Who Their Family Are, Even If They’re Only Distantly Related. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/siberian-jays-can-tell-if-other-birds-are-only-distantly-related/. 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 (2011) Transportation Security: Actions Needed to Address Limitations in TSA’s Transportation Worker Security Threat Assessments and Growing Workload. 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

Boylan SA (2017) An exploratory case study: U. S. Army’s leadership development for organizational leaders. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Pomfret J (2017) Isolating China doesn’t work. New York Times 0

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weissman 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Weissman 2008; Handschin and Spiegelman 2008).

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

Two authors: (Handschin and Spiegelman 2008)
Three or more authors: (Woo et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Insect Conservation
Abbreviation	J. Insect Conserv.
ISSN (print)	1366-638X
ISSN (online)	1572-9753
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Insect Science Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation