How to format your references using the Evolution citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evolution. 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

Morris, J. W., Jr. 2008. Materials science. Stronger, tougher steels. Science 320:1022–1023.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baldauf, D., and R. Desimone. 2014. Neural mechanisms of object-based attention. Science 344:424–427.

A journal article with 3 authors

Franzoni, C., G. Scellato, and P. Stephan. 2011. Science policy. Changing incentives to publish. Science 333:702–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bleszynski-Jayich, A. C., W. E. Shanks, B. Peaudecerf, E. Ginossar, F. von Oppen, L. Glazman, and J. G. E. Harris. 2009. Persistent currents in normal metal rings. Science 326:272–275.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King, J. A., and S. Timacheff. 2008. Digital Photography for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kincaid, H., and J. McKitrick (eds). 2007. Establishing Medical Reality: Essays In The Metaphysics And Epistemology Of Biomedical Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Schienke, E. W. 2012. “Ecocity China”: An Ethos Under Development. Pp. 69–85 in S. H. Christensen, C. Mitcham, B. Li, and Y. An, eds. Engineering, Development and Philosophy: American, Chinese and European Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Newly Emerged Island Could Be A “Natural Lab” To Study Evolution. IFLScience.

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. 1986. Attack Warning: ADP Replacement for Warning and Assessment System Still Years Away. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Campos-Doerfler, L. 2017. The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome Stability. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Kenigsberg, B. 2017. Alina.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morris 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Morris 2008; Baldauf and Desimone 2014).

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

Two authors: (Baldauf and Desimone 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bleszynski-Jayich et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolution
Abbreviation	Evolution
ISSN (print)	0014-3820
ISSN (online)	1558-5646
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics