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

Dobson, C. M. (2002). Getting out of shape. Nature, 418(6899), 729–730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyet, M., & Carlson, R. W. (2005). 142Nd evidence for early (>4.53 Ga) global differentiation of the silicate Earth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5734), 576–581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, Y., Dong, Y., & Chawla, N. V. (2014). Predicting node degree centrality with the node prominence profile. Scientific Reports, 4, 7236.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Miyoshi, T., Kanoh, J., Saito, M., & Ishikawa, F. (2008). Fission yeast Pot1-Tpp1 protects telomeres and regulates telomere length. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5881), 1341–1344.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster, M. C. (2007). HPLC. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hazewinkel, M., Gubareni, N., & Kirichenko, V. V. (Eds.). (2007). Algebras, Rings and Modules (Vol. 586). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Elkies, N. D., & Kominers, S. D. (2013). Weighted Generating Functions for Type II Lattices and Codes. In K. Alladi, M. Bhargava, D. Savitt, & P. H. Tiep (Eds.), Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms (pp. 63–108). 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

Andrews, R. (2017, March 27). Scientists Build Working Heart Tissue Out Of Spinach Leaves. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-build-working-heart-tissue-out-of-spinach-leaves/

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. (2010). America COMPETES Act: It Is Too Early to Evaluate Programs Long-Term Effectiveness, but Agencies Could Improve Reporting of High-Risk, High-Reward Research Priorities (GAO-11-127R). 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

Nguyen, D. (2009). Deus-ex-machina: A modern skeptic’s relentless scrutiny of the production of ethics in post-colonial literature and postcolonialism [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Ervin, A. (2017, July 28). Tales of the Unhinged. New York Times, BR18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Boyet & Carlson, 2005; Dobson, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Boyet & Carlson, 2005)
Three authors: (Yang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Miyoshi et al., 2008)

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