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

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

Thompson JK (2015) Quantum physics: Atomic doughnuts from single photons. Nature 519:420–422

A journal article with 2 authors

Knouse KA, Amon A (2015) Cell biology: the micronucleus gets its big break. Nature 522:162–163

A journal article with 3 authors

Derry WB, Putzke AP, Rothman JH (2001) Caenorhabditis elegans p53: role in apoptosis, meiosis, and stress resistance. Science 294:591–595

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Todorov A, Mandisodza AN, Goren A, Hall CC (2005) Inferences of competence from faces predict election outcomes. Science 308:1623–1626

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiu RG (2014) Service Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dréo J (2006) Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization: Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms, Ant Colonies,… Methods and Case Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wachenfeld S, Terlunen S, Jiang X (2010) Robust 1-D Barcode Recognition on Camera Phones and Mobile Product Information Display. In: Jiang X, Ma MY, Chen CW (eds) Mobile Multimedia Processing: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–69

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 Pest Science.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Vibrating Magnets Help Male Bees Attract Females From Different Subspecies. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vibrating-magnets-help-male-bees-attract-females-different-subspecies/. 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 (2002) Highway Infrastructure: Physical Conditions of the Interstate Highway System Have Improved, but Congestion and Other Pressure Continue. 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

Zhao J (2012) Contextual Differential Item Functioning: Examining the Validity of Teaching Self-Efficacy Instruments Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Vecsey G (2011) Rangers Fans Had Something to Prove. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thompson 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Thompson 2015; Knouse and Amon 2015).

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

Two authors: (Knouse and Amon 2015)
Three or more authors: (Todorov et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pest Science
Abbreviation	J. Pest Sci. (2004)
ISSN (print)	1612-4758
ISSN (online)	1612-4766
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science