How to format your references using the Evolutionary Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evolutionary Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Pentland, A. (2015). Economics: Simple market models fail the test. Nature, 525(7568), 190–191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, E.-J., & Groisman, E. A. (2012). Control of a Salmonella virulence locus by an ATP-sensing leader messenger RNA. Nature, 486(7402), 271–275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cremer, S., Sledge, M. F., & Heinze, J. (2002). Chemical mimicry: male ants disguised by the queen’s bouquet. Nature, 419(6910), 897.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Levine, J. D., Funes, P., Dowse, H. B., & Hall, J. C. (2002). Resetting the circadian clock by social experience in Drosophila melanogaster. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5600), 2010–2012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tran, J. (2010). The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Mobus, G. E. (2015). Principles of Systems Science. (M. C. Kalton, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rätsch, G. (2006). The Solution of Semi-Infinite Linear Programs Using Boosting-Like Methods. In L. Todorovski, N. Lavrač, & K. P. Jantke (Eds.), Discovery Science: 9th International Conference, DS 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 15–15). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 25). Scientists Want To Collect Whale Boogers Using Flying Drones. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-want-collect-whale-boogers-using-flying-drones/. 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. (1975). Comments on Energy Research and Development Administration’s Proposed Arrangement for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Demonstration Plant Project (No. RED-75-361). Washington, DC: 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

Davidson, J. M. (2010). Transitional age youth—a program expansion to enhance existing services in Sonoma County: A grant-writing project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Goldstein, J. (2017, May 26). Asked to Reduce Prison Rape, Then Accused of Sexual Abuse. New York Times, p. A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pentland 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lee and Groisman 2012; Pentland 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Groisman 2012)
Three or more authors: (Levine et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Biology
Abbreviation	Evol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0071-3260
ISSN (online)	1934-2845
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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