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

Knill E. Quantum computing with realistically noisy devices. Nature. 2005 Mar 3;434(7029):39–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilman SL, Glaze FE. History of science. “How science survived”--medieval manuscripts as fossils. Science. 2005 Feb 25;307(5713):1208–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gong S-S, Zhu W, Sheng DN. Emergent chiral spin liquid: fractional quantum Hall effect in a kagome Heisenberg model. Sci. Rep. 2014 Sep 10;4:6317.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hierro A, Sun J, Rusnak AS, Kim J, Prag G, Emr SD, et al. Structure of the ESCRT-II endosomal trafficking complex. Nature. 2004 Sep 9;431(7005):221–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sundar V. Ocean Wave Mechanics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Hart JG, editor. Who One Is: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Kobsa A. Generic User Modeling Systems. In: Brusilovsky P, Kobsa A, Nejdl W, editors. The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 136–54.

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 E. Aggression And Sexual Cannibalism In Wolf Spiders [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/aggression-and-sexual-cannibalism-wolf-spiders/

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. Final Certification of TAP Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Jul. Report No.: AIMD/OGC-00-250R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shen H. Organization -employee relationships model: A two -sided story [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

Eligon J, Cooper M. Blasts at Boston Marathon Kill 3 and Injure 100. New York Times. 2013 Apr 15;A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knill 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gilman and Glaze 2005; Knill 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gilman and Glaze 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hierro et al. 2004)

About the journal

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