How to format your references using the Coevolution citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Coevolution. 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 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

Marks TJ. 2007. Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007). Science. 316(5822):214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dawson TM, Dawson VL. 2003. Molecular pathways of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Science. 302(5646):819–822.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hinrichs K-U, Hmelo LR, Sylva SP. 2003. Molecular fossil record of elevated methane levels in late Pleistocene coastal waters. Science. 299(5610):1214–1217.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Thornalley DJR, Oppo DW, Ortega P, Robson JI, Brierley CM, Davis R, Hall IR, Moffa-Sanchez P, Rose NL, Spooner PT, et al. 2018. Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years. Nature. 556(7700):227–230.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belmont DP. 2011. Managing Hedge Fund Risk and Financing. 1 Fusionopolis Walk, #07-01, Solaris South Tower, Singapore 138628: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Han M-W, Lee J, editors. 2011. EKC 2010: Proceedings of the EU-Korea Conference on Science and Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zimmer J, Hentges F, Andrès E, Chalifour A. 2010. NK Cell Education and CIS Interaction Between Inhibitory NK Cell Receptors and Their Ligands. In: Zimmer J, editor. Natural Killer Cells: At the Forefront of Modern Immunology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 93–108.

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 Coevolution.

Blog post

Davis J. 2016. Wild Pigs Forage – And Sleep – Along Magnetic Lines. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-pigs-forage-and-sleep-along-magnetic-lines/

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. 2009. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Issues Associated with Midterm Implementation of Capabilities and Full System Transformation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zurheide PK. 2009. Hydromorphology of anomalous bright loamy soils on the mid-Atlantic coastal plain [Doctoral dissertation]. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Crow K. 2002. Gallery? Studio? Home? Blurring the Lines, Artists Paint and Sell. New York Times.:G23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marks 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Dawson and Dawson 2003; Marks 2007).

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

Two authors: (Dawson and Dawson 2003)
Three or more authors: (Thornalley et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Coevolution
Abbreviation	Coevolution
ISSN (online)	2325-6214
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