Academic citation guidelines for proposals

For grant proposals, we require academic references to be cited in the formats described below.

Journal article

  • Evans, M. A. 2000. Article title: subtitle (begin with lowercase after colon or dash unless first word is a proper noun). J. Abbr. 00:000–000.
  • Evans, M. A. 2001a. Article title. J. Abbr. 00: 000–000.
  • Evans, M. A., and R. Burns. 2001. Article title. J. Abbr. 00: 000–000.
  • Evans, M. A., and A. Tyler. 2001. Article title. J. Abbr. 00: 000–000.
  • Evans, M. A., A. Tyler, and H. H. Munro. 2000. Article title. J. Abbr. 00: 000–000.
  • Evans, M. A., R. Burns, and A. A. Dunn. 2001. Article title. J. Abbr. 00: 000–000.

In press

Evans, M. A. 2002. Article title. J. Econ. Entomol. (in press).

Book

  • Burns, R. 2001. Title (initial cap only): subtitle (no initial cap after colon). Publisher, city, state abbreviation or country.
  • Evans, M. A. 2001. Colorado potato beetle, 2nd ed. Publisher, city, state abbreviation or country.
  • Tyler, A. 2001. Western corn rootworm, vol. 2. Publisher, city, state abbreviation or country.

Article or chapter in a book

  • Tyler, A. 2001. Article or chapter title, pp. 000–000. In T.A.J. Royer and R. B. Burns (eds.), Book title. Publisher, city, state abbreviation or country.
  • Tyler, A., R.S.T. Smith, and H. Brown. 2001. Onion thrips control, pp. 178–195. In R. S. Green and P. W. White (eds.), Book title, vol. 13. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, MD.

No author given

  • (USDA) U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2001. Title. USDA, Beltsville, MD.
  • (IRRI) International Rice Research Institute. 2001. Title. IRRI, City, State or Country.

Patent

Harred, J. F., A. R. Knight, and J. S. McIntyre, inventors; Dow Chemical Company, assignee. 1972 Apr 4. Epoxidation process. U.S. patent 3,654,317.

Proceeding

  • Martin, P. D., J. Kuhlman, and S. Moore. 2001. Yield effects of European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) feeding, pp. 345–356. In Proceedings, 19th Illinois Cooperative Extension Service Spray School, 24–27 June 1985, Chicago, IL. Publisher, City, State.
  • Rossignol, P. A. 2001. Parasite modification of mosquito probing behavior, pp. 25–28. In T. W. Scott and J. Grumstrup-Scott (eds.), Proceedings, Symposium: the Role of Vector-Host Interactions in Disease Transmission. National Conference of the Entomological Society of America,10 December 1985, Hollywood, FL. Miscellaneous Publication 68. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, MD.

Thesis or dissertation

James, H. 2001. Thesis or dissertation title. M.S. thesis or Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Software

SAS Institute. 2001. PROC user's manual, version 6th ed. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Online citations

Reisen, W. 2001. Title. Complete URL (protocol://host.name/path/file.name) and/or DOI (Digital Object Identifier)