How to format your references using the Journal of Pollination Ecology citation style

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

Weintraub K (2013) Drug development: Releasing the brakes. Nature 504:S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phillips P, Dalidovich D (2003) The elusive Bose metal. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302:243–247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rastogi D, Suzuki M, Greally JM (2013) Differential epigenome-wide DNA methylation patterns in childhood obesity-associated asthma. Scientific reports 3:2164.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dexter JP, Tamme MB, Lind CH, Collins E-MS (2014) On-chip immobilization of planarians for in vivo imaging. Scientific reports 4:6388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Featherstone H, Holt E (2011) Small Animal Ophthalmology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Rolstadås A (2011) Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Capital Projects: Beyond the Myth of Predictability Hetland PW, Jergeas GF, Westney RE (eds). Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Stubberud SC, Teranishi AM (2014) Estimation for Target Tracking Using a Control Theoretic Approach – Part I. In: Swiątek J, Grzech A, Swiątek P, Tomczak JM (eds) Advances in Systems Science: Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Science 2013 (ICSS 2013). Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 35–43.

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 Pollination Ecology.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2014) The Spookiest Places in the Universe. IFLScience [online] URL: https://www.iflscience.com/space/spookiest-images-cosmos/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1996) Improving Federal Performance in the Information Age Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1996-98. 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

Boucher D (2013) An action research project: Development of a pre-licensure examination review course for Emergency Medical Technician program graduates at a rural community college. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN

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

Kelly M (1993) Clinton, Off and Running, Sees the Sun Rise on ’93. New York Times:18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weintraub 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Phillips & Dalidovich 2003; Weintraub 2013).

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

Two authors: (Phillips & Dalidovich 2003)
Three or more authors: (Dexter et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pollination Ecology
Abbreviation	J. Pollinat. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	1920-7603
Scope