How to format your references using the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Howat I. 2010. Journal club. A glaciologist ponders iceberg calving from a safe distance. Nature. 466(7308):799

A journal article with 2 authors

Pérez-Gussinyé M, Watts AB. 2005. The long-term strength of Europe and its implications for plate-forming processes. Nature. 436(7049):381–84

A journal article with 3 authors

Shcherbina AY, Talley LD, Rudnick DL. 2003. Direct observations of North Pacific ventilation: brine rejection in the Okhotsk Sea. Science. 302(5652):1952–55

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Laurberg M, Asahara H, Korostelev A, Zhu J, Trakhanov S, Noller HF. 2008. Structural basis for translation termination on the 70S ribosome. Nature. 454(7206):852–57

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barbosa P, Berry DL, Kary CS. 2014. Insect Histology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

McCarty LB. 2016. Applied Soil Physical Properties, Drainage, and Irrigation Strategies. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Balcar E, Lovesey SW. 2009. Properties of the 6j-Symbol. In Introduction to the Graphical Theory of Angular Momentum: Case Studies, ed. SW Lovesey, pp. 41–47. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2017. Hyperloop May Be Coming To Eastern Europe. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2000. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2002. OGC-00-28, 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

Momcheva IG. 2009. Environments of strong gravitational lenses. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Arizona

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

(nyt) SK. 2001. World Briefing | Europe: Abkhazia: Air Strikes On Rebels. New York Times, Oct. 16, , p. A14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Howat 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Howat 2010; Pérez-Gussinyé & Watts 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pérez-Gussinyé & Watts 2005)
Three or more authors: (Laurberg et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1543-592X
ISSN (online)	1545-2069
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology