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

Zuber MT (2003) Planetary science. Learning to think like Martians. Science 302:1694–1695

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiest O, Helquist P (2011) Chemistry. Striking a balance to control stereochemistry. Science 333:1831–1832

A journal article with 3 authors

Mempel TR, Henrickson SE, Von Andrian UH (2004) T-cell priming by dendritic cells in lymph nodes occurs in three distinct phases. Nature 427:154–159

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boto E, Holmes N, Leggett J, et al (2018) Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature 555:657–661

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelly VA (2015) ADDICTION in the Family: What Every Counselor Needs to Know. American Counseling Association, Alexandria, USA

An edited book

McClain BC, Suresh S (eds) (2011) Handbook of Pediatric Chronic Pain: Current Science and Integrative Practice. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Seltrecht A (2015) Not Just for Women. In: Ostrouch-Kamińska J, Vieira CC (eds) Private World(s): Gender and Informal Learning of Adults. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 41–57

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 (2015) Is There A Moral Centre In Our Brain? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/there-moral-centre-our-brain/. 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 (2015) Federal Aviation Administration: Improved Tracking of Results Needed to Provide Confidence in Benefits of Streamlining Activities. 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

Villegas B (2009) The optimization and characterization of superconducting magnesium diboride thin films. 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

Applebome P (2016) In Detroit’s Recovery, Downtown Roars and Neighborhoods Sputter. New York Times A9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zuber 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Zuber 2003; Wiest and Helquist 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wiest and Helquist 2011)
Three or more authors: (Boto et al. 2018)

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