How to format your references using the Evolution: Education and Outreach citation style

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

Obara K. Nonvolcanic deep tremor associated with subduction in southwest Japan. Science. 2002 May 31;296(5573):1679–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trembleau L, Rebek J Jr. Helical conformation of alkanes in a hydrophobic cavitand. Science. 2003 Aug 29;301(5637):1219–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rideout WM 3rd, Eggan K, Jaenisch R. Nuclear cloning and epigenetic reprogramming of the genome. Science. 2001 Aug 10;293(5532):1093–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lescano AG, Salmon-Mulanovich G, Pedroni E, Blazes DL. Epidemiology. Outbreak investigation and response training. Science. 2007 Oct 26;318(5850):574–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith RA. Virgil. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Liu Z, Woodcock J, Zhu H, editors. Theories of Programming and Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Chakrabarti G, Sen C. Global Stock Market, Knife-Edge Stability and the Crisis. In: Sen C, editor. Anatomy of Global Stock Market Crashes: An Empirical Analysis. New Delhi: Springer India; 2012. p. 49–62.

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: Education and Outreach.

Blog post

Andrew D. A New Twist On Fusion Power Could Help Bring Limitless Clean Energy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/a-new-twist-on-fusion-power-could-help-bring-limitless-clean-energy/

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. Highway Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Aug. Report No.: GAO-01-985R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Enriquez M. Music therapy to hospice patients of Visiting Nurse Association of Inland Counties: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Greenhouse L. Curb on Access to News In Prison Gets Hearing. New York Times. 2006 Mar 28;A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Obara 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Obara 2002; Trembleau and Rebek 2003).

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

Two authors: (Trembleau and Rebek 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lescano et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolution: Education and Outreach
Abbreviation	Evolution (N. Y.)
ISSN (print)	1936-6426
ISSN (online)	1936-6434
Scope