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

Morton, O. (2000). PARTICLE PHYSICS: The Final Tally Leaves LEP a Probable Loser. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5495), 1274a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shinar, G., & Feinberg, M. (2010). Structural sources of robustness in biochemical reaction networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5971), 1389–1391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tassin, P., Koschny, T., & Soukoulis, C. M. (2013). Applied physics. Graphene for terahertz applications. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6146), 620–621.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Solanki, S. K., Lagg, A., Woch, J., Krupp, N., & Collados, M. (2003). Three-dimensional magnetic field topology in a region of solar coronal heating. Nature, 425(6959), 692–695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cornier, J., Owen, A., Kwade, A., & Van de Voorde, M. (2017). Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ribatti, D. (2011). Mast Cells and Tumours: from Biology to Clinic (E. Crivellato, Ed.). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Holzinger, A., Malle, B., Bloice, M., Wiltgen, M., Ferri, M., Stanganelli, I., & Hofmann-Wellenhof, R. (2014). On the Generation of Point Cloud Data Sets: Step One in the Knowledge Discovery Process. In A. Holzinger & I. Jurisica (Eds.), Interactive Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges (pp. 57–80). Springer.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 27). Why Can’t We See Stars In Space Photographs? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-can-t-we-see-stars-in-space-photographs/

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. (2008). Highway Safety Improvement Program: Further Efforts Needed to Address Data Limitations and Better Align Funding with States’ Top Safety Priorities (GAO-09-35). 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

Mullican, C. D. (2012). Multiple Intelligences in the Text: Examining the Presence of Multiple Intelligences Tasks in the Annotated Teacher’s Editions of Four High School United States History Textbooks [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Carlson, L. (2010, February 21). Come Committed or Stay on the Couch. New York Times, MB3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morton, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Morton, 2000; Shinar & Feinberg, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shinar & Feinberg, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Solanki et al., 2003)

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