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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Watanabe M. 2004. Material gains. Nature. 432(7016):532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor MS, Hellberg ME. 2003. Genetic evidence for local retention of pelagic larvae in a Caribbean reef fish. Science. 299(5603):107–109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Le Mée L, Girardeau J, Monnier C. 2004. Mantle segmentation along the Oman ophiolite fossil mid-ocean ridge. Nature. 432(7014):167–172.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Rocks O, Peyker A, Kahms M, Verveer PJ, Koerner C, Lumbierres M, Kuhlmann J, Waldmann H, Wittinghofer A, Bastiaens PIH. 2005. An acylation cycle regulates localization and activity of palmitoylated Ras isoforms. Science. 307(5716):1746–1752.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bain BJ, Wild BJ, Stephens AD, Phelan LA. 2010. Variant Haemoglobins. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Mahlich J, Pascha W, editors. 2012. Korean Science and Technology in an International Perspective. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD.

A chapter in an edited book

Schaathun HG, Cohen GD. 2005. A Trellis-Based Bound on (2,1)-Separating Codes. In: Smart NP, editor. Cryptography and Coding: 10th IMA International Conference, Cirencester, UK, December 19-21, 2005 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 59–67.

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

Luntz S. 2015. Eyes Are A Lot More Expensive Than We Thought. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/cost-sight/

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. 2006. Summary of a GAO Conference: Helping California Youths with Disabilities Transition to Work or Postsecondary Education. 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

Catalini M. 2012. Intrinsic rewards increase job performance within an organization [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Dynarski S. 2014. Where College Ratings Hits the Wall. New York Times.:BU7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watanabe 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Taylor and Hellberg 2003; Watanabe 2004).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Hellberg 2003)
Three or more authors: (Rocks et al. 2005)

About the journal

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