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. Mather JC. HISTORY OF SCIENCE: Science and Sputnik. Science. 2007;318:52–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yoon S-J, Lee Y-W. An aligned stream of low-metallicity clusters in the halo of the Milky Way. Science. 2002;297:578–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Saitou M, Barton SC, Surani MA. A molecular programme for the specification of germ cell fate in mice. Nature. 2002;418:293–300.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Di Toro G, Hirose T, Nielsen S, Pennacchioni G, Shimamoto T. Natural and experimental evidence of melt lubrication of faults during earthquakes. Science. 2006;311:647–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Callahan KR, Stetz GS, Brooks LM. Project Management Accounting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Lee J, Novikov N, Turkevich V, editors. Innovative Superhard Materials and Sustainable Coatings for Advanced Manufacturing: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Innovative Superhard Materials and Sustainable Coatings Kiev, Ukraine 12–15 May 2004. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Furhang EE, Sillanpaa JK, Hu KS, Harrison LB. HDR-IORT: Physics and Techniques. In: Gunderson LL, Willett CG, Calvo FA, Harrison LB, editors. Intraoperative Irradiation: Techniques and Results. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011. p. 73–84.

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. Fang J. Binge-Eating Cavefish Could Illuminate Human Obesity [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fat-blind-cavefish-are-constantly-hungry-healthy/

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. Job Training Partnership Act: Services and Outcomes for Participants With Differing Needs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Jun. Report No.: HRD-89-52.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hernandez A. Impact of the Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006 on monthly caseworker visits to children in Los Angeles County on California’s foster care system [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. Koblin J. Netflix Signs New Deal With Rhimes. New York Times. 2017 Aug 14;C1.

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