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 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

Rachman, S. 2013. Cleaning damned spots from the obsessive mind. Nature 503:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shin, D., and K.-H. Cho. 2013. Recurrent connections form a phase-locking neuronal tuner for frequency-dependent selective communication. Sci. Rep. 3:2519.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nabel, G. J., C.-J. Wei, and J. E. Ledgerwood. 2011. Vaccinate for the next H2N2 pandemic now. Nature 471:157–158.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Canfield, D. E., S. W. Poulton, A. H. Knoll, G. M. Narbonne, G. Ross, T. Goldberg, and H. Strauss. 2008. Ferruginous conditions dominated later neoproterozoic deep-water chemistry. Science 321:949–952.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone, C. A., and A. Zissu. 2012. The Securitization Markets Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Salmela, H., and A. Sell (eds). 2011. Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Second Scandinavian Conference, on Information Systems, SCIS 2011, Turku, Finland, August 16-19, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Haraty, R. A., and S. Massalkhy. 2013. UPP+: A Flexible User Privacy Policy for Social Networking Services. Pp. 139–155 in R. Chbeir and B. Al Bouna, eds. Security and Privacy Preserving in Social Networks. Springer, Vienna.

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

O`Callaghan, J. 2016. Virgin Galactic Flies Again Two Years After Devastating Crash. 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. 2006. Commercial Aviation: Costs and Major Factors Influencing Infrastructure Changes at U.S. Airports to Accomodate the New A380 Aircraft. 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

Calderwood, A. 2014. Improving the singer’s understanding of bebop language: Transcription application. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Coscarelli, J. 2017. New Prince Songs Blocked by Judge.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rachman 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Rachman 2013; Shin and Cho 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shin and Cho 2013)
Three or more authors: (Canfield et al. 2008)

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