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

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

Servick, K., 2014. Top heart lab comes under fire. Science 345, 254.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smethurst, D.P., Williams, H.C., 2001. Power laws. Are hospital waiting lists self-regulating? Nature 410, 652–653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Montague, P.R., Hyman, S.E., Cohen, J.D., 2004. Computational roles for dopamine in behavioural control. Nature 431, 760–767.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bunch, J.S., van der Zande, A.M., Verbridge, S.S., Frank, I.W., Tanenbaum, D.M., Parpia, J.M., Craighead, H.G., McEuen, P.L., 2007. Electromechanical resonators from graphene sheets. Science 315, 490–493.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clayton, L.A., 2010. Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Gendreau, M., Potvin, J.-Y. (Eds.), 2010. Handbook of Metaheuristics, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Atay, F.M., 2016. Controlling Oscillations in Nonlinear Systems with Delayed Output Feedback, in: Schöll, E., Klapp, S.H.L., Hövel, P. (Eds.), Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–79.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. World’s Oldest Hand Stencils Discovered in Tropical Cave [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1992. The Job Training Partnership Act: Abuse of On-The-Job Training and Other Contracting Is an Ongoing Problem (No. T-HRD-92-47). 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

Boggs, B.D., 2012. An assessment of campus police departments across Mississippi’s public community and junior colleges (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Crow, K., 2004. The Nanny Nightmare. New York Times 141.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Servick, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Servick, 2014; Smethurst and Williams, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Smethurst and Williams, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Bunch et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Insect Physiology
Abbreviation	J. Insect Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-1910
Scope	Insect Science Physiology