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

Kassen, R. (2011). If you want to win the game, you must join in. Nature, 480(7376), 153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson, A. J., & Schoeman, D. S. (2004). Climate impact on plankton ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5690), 1609–1612.

A journal article with 3 authors

Couch, F. J., Nathanson, K. L., & Offit, K. (2014). Two decades after BRCA: setting paradigms in personalized cancer care and prevention. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6178), 1466–1470.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sakuda, A., Takeuchi, T., Okamura, K., Kobayashi, H., Sakaebe, H., Tatsumi, K., & Ogumi, Z. (2014). Rock-salt-type lithium metal sulphides as novel positive-electrode materials. Scientific Reports, 4, 4883.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Warnock, G., Ghafary, M., & Shaheen, G. (2015). Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing Architect (SRA) Self-Study Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Plangger, K. (Ed.). (2016). Thriving in a New World Economy: Proceedings of the 2012 World Marketing Congress/Cultural Perspectives in Marketing Conference. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

West, B. J. (2009). Control from an Allometric Perspective. In D. Sternad (Ed.), Progress in Motor Control: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (pp. 57–82). Springer US.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, November 11). If The US Had Price On Carbon, Would Keystone XL Have Made Sense? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/if-us-had-price-carbon-would-keystone-xl-have-made-sense/

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. (1995). Adult Education Review (HEHS-95-65R). 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

Hitchins, M. G. (2017). Domain Disparity: Informing the Debate between Domain-General and Domain-Specific Information Processing in Working Memory [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, January 12). The Return of Goldman Sachs. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kassen, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kassen, 2011; Richardson & Schoeman, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Richardson & Schoeman, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sakuda et al., 2014)

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