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

Coste B. 2012. Eppendorf finalist. The cellular feeling of pressure. Science. 338(6103):59

A journal article with 2 authors

Settembre C, Ballabio A. 2014. Cell metabolism: autophagy transcribed. Nature. 516(7529):40–41

A journal article with 3 authors

Ibarra RU, Edwards JS, Palsson BO. 2002. Escherichia coli K-12 undergoes adaptive evolution to achieve in silico predicted optimal growth. Nature. 420(6912):186–89

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Del Monte-Nieto G, Ramialison M, Adam AAS, Wu B, Aharonov A, et al. 2018. Control of cardiac jelly dynamics by NOTCH1 and NRG1 defines the building plan for trabeculation. Nature. 557(7705):439–45

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith P. 2016. Structural Design of Buildings. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Bifet A, May M, Zadrozny B, Gavalda R, Pedreschi D, et al., eds. 2015. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 7-11, 2015, Proceedings, Part III, Vol. 9286. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 1st ed. 2015 ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Golubov AA, Tanaka Y, Asano Y, Tanuma Y. 2011. Odd-Frequency Pairing in Superconducting Heterostructures. In Fundamentals of Superconducting Nanoelectronics, ed. A Sidorenko, pp. 117–31. 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

Davis J. 2016. Comprehensive Review Of Statins Finds The Benefits Far Outweigh The Risks. 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. 2002. Commercial Aviation: Air Service Trends At Small Communities Since October 2000. GAO-02-432, 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

Lincoln JJ. 2010. Creating a lesson that addresses gender differences in physics testing a specific instructional technique in college level physics education. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Walsh MW. 2011. The Burden Of Pensions On States. New York Times, March 11, , p. B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coste 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Coste 2012; Settembre & Ballabio 2014).

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

Two authors: (Settembre & Ballabio 2014)
Three or more authors: (Del Monte-Nieto et al. 2018)

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