How to format your references using the EvoDevo citation style

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

1. Urnov FD. Biological techniques: Edit the genome to understand it. Nature. 2014;513:40–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Shang Y, Brown M. Molecular determinants for the tissue specificity of SERMs. Science. 2002;295:2465–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Powell MD, Vickery PJ, Reinhold TA. Reduced drag coefficient for high wind speeds in tropical cyclones. Nature. 2003;422:279–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zaller JG, Heigl F, Ruess L, Grabmaier A. Glyphosate herbicide affects belowground interactions between earthworms and symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi in a model ecosystem. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hunter DA. A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Trussell LO, Popper AN, Fay RR, editors. Synaptic Mechanisms in the Auditory System. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hajiesmaeili M, Bagherinakhjavanlo B, Dehmeshki J, Ellis T. Segmentation of the Hippocampus for Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Bebis G, Boyle R, Parvin B, Koracin D, Fowlkes C, Wang S, et al., editors. Advances in Visual Computing: 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 42–50.

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 EvoDevo.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Researchers Exploring Egyptian Cemetery Stumble Across Astonishing Find [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/catacombs-full-mummies-uncovered-massive-eegyptian-necropolis/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Automatic Data Processing: A Career Challenge. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984 Jan. Report No.: 124847.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Muniyappa VK. Performance analysis of IPv4 versus IPv6 in a simple campus network [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

1. Goldstein M, Eder S, Kelly K, Stevenson A, Protess B. Sources of Trump Aides’ Wealth Include Cosmetics and ‘Seinfeld’ Reruns. New York Times. 2017 Apr 1;A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	EvoDevo
Abbreviation	Evodevo
ISSN (online)	2041-9139
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Developmental Biology Genetics