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 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

Dalton, R. (2007) France strives for sharper image. Nature, 445, 699.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan, Y. & Pennycook, S.J. (2000) Atomic structure of the quasicrystal Al72Ni20Co8. Nature, 403, 266–267.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mills, C.E., Robins, J.M. & Lipsitch, M. (2004) Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza. Nature, 432, 904–906.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhu, P., Chen, Y.-J., Hao, J.-H., Ge, J.-F., Huang, K., Tao, R.-X., et al. (2013) Maternal depressive symptoms related to Epstein-Barr virus reactivation in late pregnancy. Scientific reports, 3, 3096.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen, G.A. & Jackson, P. (2005) Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Tortajada, C., Altinbilek, D. & Biswas, A.K. (Eds.). (2012) Impacts of Large Dams: A Global Assessment. Water Resources Development and Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Simpson, C.G. & Brown, J.W.S. (2008) U12-Dependent Intron Splicing in Plants. In Nuclear pre-mRNA Processing in Plants, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (ed. by Reddy, A.S.N. & Golovkin, M.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–82.

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) Three Problems With The Way We Think About Nuclear Power [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/three-problems-way-we-think-about-nuclear-power/ [accessed on 1 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. (2000) Mass Transit: Challenges in Evaluating, Overseeing, and Funding Major Transit Projects ( No. T-RCED-00-104). 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

Gwaduri, E. (2009) A personal narrative: Struggles and experiences of acculturation as a Pakistani Shia Muslim while battling immigration (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

Hollander, S. (2002) BackTalk; Uncertainty and Stress Cross the Finish Line. New York Times, 811.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Yan & Pennycook, 2000; Dalton, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Yan & Pennycook, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al., 2013)

About the journal

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