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

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

Smaglik P. 2004. Capping active volcanoes. Nature. 428(6980):347.

A journal article with 2 authors

Serebrov V, Pyle AM. 2004. Periodic cycles of RNA unwinding and pausing by hepatitis C virus NS3 helicase. Nature. 430(6998):476–480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalisz S, Vogler DW, Hanley KM. 2004. Context-dependent autonomous self-fertilization yields reproductive assurance and mixed mating. Nature. 430(7002):884–887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johnson D, Campbell CD, Lee JA, et al. 2002. Arctic microorganisms respond more to elevated UV-B radiation than CO2. Nature. 416(6876):82–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown DJ. 2005. Cinnolines and Phthalazines: Supplement II. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds: A Series Of Monographs).

An edited book

Alvarado JJ, Solis-Marin FA, editors. 2013. Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Talreja R. 2015. Analysis of Failure in Composite Structures. In: Altenbach H, Sadowski T, editors. Failure and Damage Analysis of Advanced Materials. Vienna: Springer. (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences). p. 255–278.

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 Medical Entomology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015 Nov 15. Why You Can Blame Evolution For Your Back Ache. 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. 2016. Public Transit: Observations on Recent Changes to the Capital Investment Grant Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-16-495.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Starr MJ. 2015. Tests for Positive Selection on Genes Encoding Heat Shock Proteins in the Marine Slipper Snail, Crepidula fornicata [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Haigney S. 2017 Aug 11. A Stolen de Kooning Emerges Decades Later. New York Times.:C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Serebrov and Pyle 2004, Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Serebrov and Pyle 2004)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Medical Entomology
Abbreviation	J. Med. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2585
ISSN (online)	1938-2928
Scope	Insect Science Parasitology Infectious Diseases General Veterinary