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. Mattmann CA. Computing: A vision for data science. Nature. 2013;493:473–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Navarro M, Gull K. A pol I transcriptional body associated with VSG mono-allelic expression in Trypanosoma brucei. Nature. 2001;414:759–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lawrence T, Hageman T, Balkwill F. Cancer. Sex, cytokines, and cancer. Science. 2007;317:51–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Oishi K, Cebrian M, Abeliuk A, Masuda N. Iterated crowdsourcing dilemma game. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Olsen D. The Lean Product Playbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Nasr EA. Computer-Based Design and Manufacturing: An Information-Based Approach. Kamrani AK, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Guerreiro EP, Costa Neto PL de O, Moreira Filho UM. Multidisciplinary Management: Model of Excellence in the Management Applied to Products and Services. In: Grabot B, Vallespir B, Gomes S, Bouras A, Kiritsis D, editors. Advances in Production Management Systems Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World: IFIP WG 57 International Conference, APMS 2014, Ajaccio, France, September 20-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 27–34.

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 EvoDevo.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Scientists Create Solid Light [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/crystallized-light-reveals-potential/

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. Homeland Security: Efforts Under Way to Develop Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Aug. Report No.: GAO-04-777.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dougherty MH. Identification of needs reported by grandparents of grandchildren, from birth to twenty-one years, with disabilities in the commonwealth of Kentucky [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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. Sisario B. After a Half-Century in Music, Still Hunting for Hits. New York Times. 2017 Apr 17;C5.

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

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