How to format your references using the Evolution Letters citation style

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

Service, R.F. (2000) ELECTRONIC OPTICS: Organic Lasers Promise New Lease on Light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289, 519–521.

A journal article with 2 authors

Byers, J. & Dunn, S. (2012) Bateman in nature: predation on offspring reduces the potential for sexual selection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338, 802–804.

A journal article with 3 authors

Noskov, S.Y., Bernèche, S. & Roux, B. (2004) Control of ion selectivity in potassium channels by electrostatic and dynamic properties of carbonyl ligands. Nature, 431, 830–834.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Meissle, M., Zünd, J., Waldburger, M. & Romeis, J. (2014) Development of Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) on pollen from Bt-transgenic and conventional maize. Scientific reports, 4, 5900.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fayngold, M. (2005) Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Britz, M. (Ed.). (2016) European Participation in International Operations: The Role of Strategic Culture. New Security Challenges. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Backhouse, R. (2008) The Capacity-C Torch Problem. In Mathematics of Program Construction: 9th International Conference, MPC 2008, Marseille, France, July 15-18, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ed. by Audebaud, P. & Paulin-Mohring, C.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–78.

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 Letters.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) Teenage Quasar Tries to Hide in its Galactic Room [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/teenage-quasar-tries-hide-its-galactic-room/ [accessed on 24 June 2015].

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. (2014) Information Technology: HUD’s Expenditure Plan Satisfied Statutory Conditions; Sustained Controls and Modernization Approach Needed ( No. GAO-14-283). 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

Zamudio, R. (2015) From community college to 4-year institutions: Latinas’ successful completion of STEM baccalaureate degrees (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Shinn, I.E. (1949) TIE-IN. New York Times, MagazineSM2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Service, 2000; Byers & Dunn, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Byers & Dunn, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Meissle et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolution Letters
ISSN (online)	2056-3744
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