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

Keppler H. 2014. Geology: Earth’s deep water reservoir. Nature. 507(7491):174–175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chandonia J-M, Brenner SE. 2006. The impact of structural genomics: expectations and outcomes. Science. 311(5759):347–351.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dankert A, Dulal RS, Dash SP. 2013. Efficient spin injection into silicon and the role of the Schottky barrier. Sci Rep. 3:3196.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Nanayama F, Satake K, Furukawa R, Shimokawa K, Atwater BF, Shigeno K, Yamaki S. 2003. Unusually large earthquakes inferred from tsunami deposits along the Kuril trench. Nature. 424(6949):660–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM. 2009. Controllership. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meng L, Reichenbacher T, Zipf A, editors. 2005. Map-based Mobile Services: Theories, Methods and Implementations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hughes GRV, Sangle S. 2012. Kidney. In: Hughes GRV, Sangle S, editors. Clinician’s Manual on Lupus. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.; p. 23–25.

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

Andrew E. 2014. Interstellar Gives a Spectacular View of Hard Science. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/interstellar-gives-spectacular-view-hard-science/

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. 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Potential for Widespread Disruption Calls for Strong Leadership and Partnerships. 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

Guo Z. 2008. Experimental Analysis of Polymer Nanocomposite Foaming Using Carbon Dioxide [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

Kelly DA. 2005. Keeping Your Computer and Its Contents Safe. New York Times.:56.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keppler 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chandonia and Brenner 2006; Keppler 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chandonia and Brenner 2006)
Three or more authors: (Nanayama et al. 2003)

About the journal

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