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

Vrakking M. 2009. Chemical physics: Electronic movies. Nature. 460(7258):960–961.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bishopp A, Bennett MJ. 2015. Plant biology: Seeing the wood and the trees. Nature. 517(7536):558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lazzerini GM, Strambini LM, Barillaro G. 2013. Addressing reliability and degradation of chemitransistor sensors by electrical tuning of the sensitivity. Sci Rep. 3:1161.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Johnson AC, Petta JR, Taylor JM, Yacoby A, Lukin MD, Marcus CM, Hanson MP, Gossard AC. 2005. Triplet-singlet spin relaxation via nuclei in a double quantum dot. Nature. 435(7044):925–928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furmston M. 2012. Powell-Smith and Furmston’s Building Contract Casebook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Hardt N, Kuttenberger J, editors. 2010. Craniofacial Trauma: Diagnosis and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Berkowitz S. 2006. Facial and Palatal Growth. In: Berkowitz S, editor. Cleft Lip and Palate. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 23–34.

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

O`Callaghan J. 2016. Secrets Of How Earth’s Aurorae Are Produced Revealed By NASA Spacecraft. IFLScience.

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. 2004. Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues Associated with the Recent Settlement between Amtrak and the Consortium of Bombardier and Alstom. 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

Steiner CP. 2015. Three essays in applied microeconomics [Doctoral dissertation]. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Hollander S. 2009. La Dolce Video. New York Times.:CY1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vrakking 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Vrakking 2009; Bishopp and Bennett 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bishopp and Bennett 2015)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al. 2005)

About the journal

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