How to format your references using the Evolutionary Bioinformatics citation style

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

Stace A. Chemistry. Cluster solutions. Science 2001; 294: 1292–1293.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lieberman MD, Eisenberger NI. Neuroscience. Pains and pleasures of social life. Science 2009; 323: 890–891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhuang J, Yu G-R, Nakayama K. A series RCL circuit theory for analyzing non-steady-state water uptake of maize plants. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6720.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Di Z, Li-Xia P, Ze-Ming Q, et al. Novel ultra-low temperature co-fired microwave dielectric ceramic at 400 degrees and its chemical compatibility with base metal. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach J. Excel® VBA Programming For Dummies®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Hoefer M (ed). Algorithmic Game Theory: 8th International Symposium, SAGT 2015, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 28-30, 2015. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian X, Yang S, Jia X, et al. A Web-Based Cooperation and Retrieval Model of Character Images for Ancient Chinese Character Research. In: Li D, Li Z (eds) Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture IX: 9th IFIP WG 5.14 International Conference, CCTA 2015, Beijing, China, September 27-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 27–44.

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 Bioinformatics.

Blog post

Luntz S. Medical Error Is The Third Biggest Killer In The USA. IFLScience.

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. Space Station: Plans to Expand Research Community Do Not Match Available Resources. NSIAD-95-33, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 22 November 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Quiros PQ. SNR estimation and jamming detection techniques using wavelets. Doctoral Dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, 8 September 2016, p. MM30.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Abbreviation	Evol. Bioinform. Online
ISSN (online)	1176-9343
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Computer Science Applications