How to format your references using the Evolutionary Ecology citation style

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

Prewitt K (2004) Sociology. What if we give a census and no one comes? Science 304:1452–1453

A journal article with 2 authors

Vijg J, Campisi J (2008) Puzzles, promises and a cure for ageing. Nature 454:1065–1071

A journal article with 3 authors

Brose U, Williams RJ, Martinez ND (2003) Comment on “Foraging adaptation and the relationship between food-web complexity and stability.” Science 301:918; author reply 918

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kadaba NS, Kaiser JT, Johnson E, et al (2008) The high-affinity E. coli methionine ABC transporter: structure and allosteric regulation. Science 321:250–253

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Avdeef A (2012) Absorption and Drug Development. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ismail M (2013) Cooperative Networking in a Heterogeneous Wireless Medium. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kuroki Y, Uraoka T, Wolkersdörfer GW (2014) High-Resolution Endoscopic Ultrasound: Clinical T-Staging of Mucosal Neoplasms. In: Berr F, Oyama T, Ponchon T, Yahagi N (eds) Early Neoplasias of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Endoscopic Diagnosis and Therapeutic Decisions. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 71–82

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 Ecology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) New Research On How Galaxies Spin Could Break One Of Our Best Dark Matter Theories. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-galaxies-spin-could-break-our-best-dark-matter-theory/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1995) Aviation Research: Perspectives on FAA’s Efforts to Develop New Technology. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hill L (2015) Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 M (2017) Dudamel Condemns Venezuelan Politics. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prewitt 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Prewitt 2004; Vijg and Campisi 2008).

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

Two authors: (Vijg and Campisi 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kadaba et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Ecology
Abbreviation	Evol. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0269-7653
ISSN (online)	1573-8477
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics