How to format your references using the Evolution and Human Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evolution and Human Behavior. 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	Download the output style file
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

Doudna, J. (2015). Perspective: Embryo editing needs scrutiny. Nature, 528(7580), S6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wookey, J., & Helffrich, G. (2008). Inner-core shear-wave anisotropy and texture from an observation of PKJKP waves. Nature, 454(7206), 873–876.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ur, J. A., Karsgaard, P., & Oates, J. (2007). Early urban development in the Near East. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5842), 1188.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fonseca, D. M., Keyghobadi, N., Malcolm, C. A., Mehmet, C., Schaffner, F., Mogi, M., Fleischer, R. C., & Wilkerson, R. C. (2004). Emerging vectors in the Culex pipiens complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5663), 1535–1538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curioso, A., Bradford, R., & Galbraith, P. (2010). Expert PHP and MySQL®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Schneier-Madanes, G., & Courel, M.-F. (Eds.). (2010). Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hassett, B., & Tschinkel, Y. (2016). Extremal Rays and Automorphisms of Holomorphic Symplectic Varieties. In C. Faber, G. Farkas, & G. van der Geer (Eds.), K3 Surfaces and Their Moduli (pp. 73–95). Springer International Publishing.

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 Evolution and Human Behavior.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, June 21). Mountain Biker Crashes Into A Bear While Cycling In California. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mountain-biker-crashes-into-a-bear-while-cycling-in-california/

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. (1990). Government Civilian Aircraft: Use of Government Aircraft by the Attorney General and FBI Director (GGD-90-84). 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

Karasik, B. A. (2015). Tele-collaboration in theatre: Collaboration mgmt tools in a digital and globalized age [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, June 3). Youth Retreats as Women’s Draw Highlights an Age of Thirtysomethings. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Doudna, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Doudna, 2015; Wookey & Helffrich, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Wookey & Helffrich, 2008)
Three authors: (Ur et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Fonseca et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolution and Human Behavior
Abbreviation	Evol. Hum. Behav.
ISSN (print)	1090-5138
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology