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

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

Endo M. 2006. Obituary: Setsuro Ebashi (1922-2006). Nature. 442(7106):996.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hom EFY, Murray AW. 2014. Plant-fungal ecology. Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism. Science. 345(6192):94–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

Domnisoru C, Kinkhabwala AA, Tank DW. 2013. Membrane potential dynamics of grid cells. Nature. 495(7440):199–204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang AHJ, Moore SD, Schmidt BS, et al. 2009. Optical manipulation of nanoparticles and biomolecules in sub-wavelength slot waveguides. Nature. 457(7225):71–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner D. 2011. A History of Modern Drama. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tomasi D. 2013. The Power of the Terroir: the Case Study of Prosecco Wine. Gaiotti F, Jones GV, editors. Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

López Mazz JM. 2015. Archaeology of Historical Conflicts, Colonial Oppression, and Political Violence in Uruguay. In: González-Ruibal A, Moshenska G, editors. Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence. New York, NY: Springer. p. 71–87.

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 Science.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2017 Jan 4. VISTA Uncovers New Secrets In The Orion Nebula. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/vista-uncovers-new-secrets-in-the-orion-nebula/.

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. 1995. Guaranteed Student Loans: Actions to Ensure Continued Student Access to Subsidized Loans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: HEHS-95-64.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Noxon C. 2017. Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition: Insights from Jōmon Paleodemography [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Doran M. 2017 May 19. A Trump Plan for the Middle East? New York Times.:A29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Endo 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Endo 2006, Hom and Murray 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hom and Murray 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Insect Science
ISSN (online)	1536-2442
Scope