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

Aebischer P. Philanthropy: The price of charity. Nature 2012; 481: 260.

A journal article with 2 authors

Minton DA, Malhotra R. A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature 2009; 457: 1109–1111.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aida T, Meijer EW, Stupp SI. Functional supramolecular polymers. Science 2012; 335: 813–817.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu D, Lei W, Qin S, et al. Template-free synthesis of functional 3D BN architecture for removal of dyes from water. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stirling E. Valuing Older People. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010.

An edited book

Grune T (ed). Reactions, Processes: Oxidants and Antioxidant Defense Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

von Minckwitz G, Pirvulescu C. Treatment with Trastuzumab Beyond Progression. In: Sibilia M, Zielinski CC, Bartsch R, et al. (eds) Drugs for HER-2-positive Breast Cancer. Basel: Springer, 2011, pp. 61–71.

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

Fang J. Turn Your Phone Into A Cosmic Ray Detector. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/your-phone-already-cosmic-ray-detector/ (2014, 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. Activities at the Regional Finance and Data Processing Center in Paris, France. B-146703, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 22 March 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Doss A. Trapped within the white gaze: A DuBoisian approach to understanding the existential burden of being a black man in America. Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University, 2015.

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

Eligon J. Trump’s ‘Carnage’ Label Misses Complex Reality of Many Urban Areas. New York Times, 28 January 2017, p. A12.

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