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

Hapgood M (2012) Astrophysics: Prepare for the coming space weather storm. Nature 484:311–313

A journal article with 2 authors

Narayan ARH, Sherman DH (2013) Chemistry. Re-engineering nature’s catalysts. Science 339:283–284

A journal article with 3 authors

Doebeli M, Hauert C, Killingback T (2004) The evolutionary origin of cooperators and defectors. Science 306:859–862

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bejerano G, Lowe CB, Ahituv N, et al (2006) A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon. Nature 441:87–90

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Snopek L (2012) The Complete Guide to Portfolio Construction and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Kaski P (2006) Classification Algorithms for Codes and Designs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Sergienko VP, Bukharov SN (2015) Methods of Analysis of Noise and Vibration Signals. In: Bukharov SN (ed) Noise and Vibration in Friction Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–81

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

Andrew E (2014) Astronomers directly image a filament of the “cosmic web” for the first time. In: IFLScience. 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 (1993) Airline Competition: Options For Addressing Financial and Competition Problems. 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

Akers K (2017) The Impact of Work-Family Conflict, Gender, and Family-Friendly Policies on Organizational Attractiveness and Job Pursuit Intentions. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

George R (2011) Flying the Flag, Fleeing The State. New York Times A25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hapgood 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hapgood 2012; Narayan and Sherman 2013).

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

Two authors: (Narayan and Sherman 2013)
Three or more authors: (Bejerano et al. 2006)

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