How to format your references using the Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 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

Hansson, G. K. (2007). Medicine. LIGHT hits the liver. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5822), 206–207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, D., & Fernandez-Martinez, A. (2012). Materials science. Order from disorder. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6096), 812–813.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirichok, Y., Krapivinsky, G., & Clapham, D. E. (2004). The mitochondrial calcium uniporter is a highly selective ion channel. Nature, 427(6972), 360–364.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pósfai, M., Liu, Y.-Y., Slotine, J.-J., & Barabási, A.-L. (2013). Effect of correlations on network controllability. Scientific Reports, 3, 1067.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowen, C. (2015). Children’s Speech Sound Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hagen, H., Guhathakurta, S., & Steinebach, G. (Eds.). (2009). Visualizing Sustainable Planning. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Boehlke, J., & Osińska, M. (2016). Examples of Experiments in Macroeconomics. In K. Nermend & M. Łatuszyńska (Eds.), Selected Issues in Experimental Economics: Proceedings of the 2015 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) Conference (pp. 57–71). Springer International Publishing.

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 Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 4). Seven Teeny Tiny Species Of Frog Discovered In Brazil. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seven-teeny-tiny-frog-species-discovered-brazil-aaaaaw/

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. (1988). Airline Scheduling: Airline Practices in Establishing and Maintaining Connecting Times (RCED-88-207). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzales, R. A. (2010). Health care team effectiveness: The relationship between team task interdependence and group emotional competence [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly, C. (2012, December 23). ‘Big Rich Texas’ Becomes an Unlikely Reality-TV Hit. New York Times, A33B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hansson, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hansson, 2007; Wang & Fernandez-Martinez, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Fernandez-Martinez, 2012)
Three authors: (Kirichok et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Pósfai et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
Abbreviation	Evol. Behav. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2330-2925
ISSN (online)	2330-2933
Scope	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Psychology