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

DeLong EF. Evolution. Microbial evolution in the wild. Science 2012; 336: 422–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Torquato S, Jiao Y. Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids. Nature 2009; 460: 876–879.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cherry JL, Adler FR, Johnson KP. Islands, equilibria, and speciation. Science 2002; 296: 975.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paul A, Bartels RA, Tobey R, et al. Quasi-phase-matched generation of coherent extreme-ultraviolet light. Nature 2003; 421: 51–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padmanabhan TR, Bala Tripura Sundari B. Design Through Verilog HDL. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

Peris-Ortiz M, Merigó-Lindahl JM (eds). Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Culture: An Institutional Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Morales JM, Conejo AJ, Madsen H, et al. Managing Uncertainty with Flexibility. In: Conejo AJ, Madsen H, Pinson P, et al. (eds) Integrating Renewables in Electricity Markets: Operational Problems. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2014, pp. 137–171.

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

O`Callaghan J. SpaceX Wants To Start Launching Its Space Internet Satellites In 2019. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-wants-to-start-launching-its-space-internet-satellites-in-2019/ (2017, accessed 30 October 2018).

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. Implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. T-HRD-89-8, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 7 March 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Scaringe JG. An investigation into the faculty development practices in chiropractic education programs. Doctoral Dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

Cooper BM. The Tailor of 125th Street. New York Times, 3 June 2017, p. ST1.

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