How to format your references using the Evolutionary Psychological Science citation style

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

Holmes, E. C. (2004). Virology. 1918 and all that. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5665), 1787–1788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sommaruga, R., & Kandolf, G. (2014). Negative consequences of glacial turbidity for the survival of freshwater planktonic heterotrophic flagellates. Scientific reports, 4, 4113.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hubbell, J. A., Thomas, S. N., & Swartz, M. A. (2009). Materials engineering for immunomodulation. Nature, 462(7272), 449–460.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, C. M., Chen, W. J., Zheng, Y., Ma, D. C., Wang, B., Liu, J. Y., & Woo, C. H. (2014). Controllability of vortex domain structure in ferroelectric nanodot: fruitful domain patterns and transformation paths. Scientific reports, 4, 3946.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertolini, L., Elsener, B., Pedeferri, P., & Polder, R. B. (2003). Corrosion of Steel in Concrete. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Schein, M., & Rogers, P. N. (Eds.). (2007). Chirurgia addominale d’urgenza: il buon senso di Schein: Guida pratica per sopravvivere nella trincea delle urgenze chirurgiche. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schumann, A. H., Wang, Y., & Dietrich, J. (2011). Framing Uncertainties in Flood Forecasting with Ensembles. In A. H. Schumann (Ed.), Flood Risk Assessment and Management: How to Specify Hydrological Loads, Their Consequences and Uncertainties (pp. 53–76). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Psychological Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 1). Five Things the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Medicine Today. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/five-things-ancient-greeks-can-teach-us-about-medicine-today/. 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. (1991). Weather Forecasting: Cost Growth and Delays in Billion-Dollar Weather Service Modernization (No. IMTEC-92-12FS). 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

Williams, A. (2010). Kindergarten through third grade reading tutors in Northeast Mississippi (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, October 6). Dissecting the Pain of Fame. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Holmes 2004; Sommaruga and Kandolf 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sommaruga and Kandolf 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Psychological Science
Abbreviation	Evol. Psychol. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2198-9885
Scope