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 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

1. Davis E. Volcanic action at Axial Seamount. Nature. 2000;403:379–80.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hey T, Trefethen AE. Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science. Science. 2005;308:817–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rössler UK, Bogdanov AN, Pfleiderer C. Spontaneous skyrmion ground states in magnetic metals. Nature. 2006;442:797–801.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sekiyama K, Miyauchi S, Imaruoka T, Egusa H, Tashiro T. Body image as a visuomotor transformation device revealed in adaptation to reversed vision. Nature. 2000;407:374–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Corten R. Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Delcambre L, Kop C, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J, Pastor O, editors. Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wright S, Bakmand-Mikalski D, Rais RB, Bishop D, Eddinger M, Farnhill B, et al. Practical Document Management with SharePoint 2010. In: Bakmand-Mikalski D, Rais RB, Bishop D, Eddinger M, Farnhill B, Hild E, et al., editors. Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011. p. 111–60.

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. Andrew E. Is the Universe Ringing Like a Bell? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Transportation Security Administration: Actions and Plans to Build a Results-Oriented Culture. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jan. Report No.: GAO-03-190.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Willis TY. Rare but there: An intersectional exploration of the experiences and outcomes of Black women who studied abroad through community college programs [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. Barnes B, Koblin J. Disney Runs Toward Streaming. New York Times. 2017 Oct 8;B1.

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