How to format your references using the Pest Management Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pest Management Science (PMS). 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

Erwin DH, David M. Raup (1933-2015), Nature 524:36 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayon R and Jenkins M, The business of biodiversity, Nature 466:184–185 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

De Marco García NV, Karayannis T, and Fishell G, Neuronal activity is required for the development of specific cortical interneuron subtypes, Nature 472:351–355 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Umina PA, Weeks AR, Kearney MR, McKechnie SW, and Hoffmann AA, A rapid shift in a classic clinal pattern in Drosophila reflecting climate change, Science 308:691–693 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li C and Lin J, Microwave Noncontact Motion Sensing and Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013).

An edited book

Cabras I, Higgins D, and Preece D, eds., Brewing, Beer and Pubs: A Global Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Popovskij V, Barkalov A, and Titarenko L, Methods for Providing Controllability of TCS, ed. by Barkalov A and Titarenko L, Control and Adaptation in Telecommunication Systems: Mathematical Foundations, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 55–65 (2011).

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 Pest Management Science.

Blog post

Andrew E, What Was This Strange Object Over California?, IFLScience, 6 January 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/was-there-really-ufo-over-southern-california/ [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, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1981).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glasgow HL, Design and Selection of Probes for In Vivo Molecular Targeting and Imaging, University of California San DiegoDoctoral dissertation (2015).

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

Dinardo K, A Lakeside Art Deco Hotel Shines Anew, New York Times:TR3 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Pest Management Science
Abbreviation	Pest Manag. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1526-498X
ISSN (online)	1526-4998
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science General Medicine Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology