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

Wadman, M. (2005). Race is on for flu vaccine. Nature, 438(7064), 23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enserink, M., & Chin, G. (2015). The end of privacy. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6221), 490–491.

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto, A., White, J. D., & Simoneit, B. R. T. (2002). Natural product terpenoids in Eocene and Miocene conifer fossils. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5586), 1543–1545.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xu, X., Zhai, J., Li, L., Chen, Y., Yu, Y., Zhang, M., et al. (2014). Passively mode-locking erbium-doped fiber lasers with 0.3 nm single-walled carbon nanotubes. Scientific reports, 4, 6761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA). (2012). Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Carson, E., & Huber, R. (Eds.). (2006). Intuition and the Axiomatic Method (Vol. 70). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Landeghem, H. (2009). Pharmaceutical Distribution Network. In Y. Merkuryev, G. Merkuryeva, M. À. Piera, & A. Guasch (Eds.), Simulation-Based Case Studies in Logistics: Education and Applied Research (pp. 49–64). London: 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 Psychological Science.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. (2017, May 27). Watch How Marine Scientists In The Sea Of Cortez Tag Sharks. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-how-marine-scientists-in-the-sea-of-cortez-tag-sharks/. 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. (1985). School District Officials Face Problems in Dealing With Asbestos in Their Schools (No. RCED-85-91). 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

Miles, C. S. (2015). Elicitation of a Program’s Behaviors (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 29). Bruce’s Third Homer in Five Games Helps Protect Wild-Card Lead. New York Times, p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Enserink and Chin 2015; Wadman 2005).

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

Two authors: (Enserink and Chin 2015)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2014)

About the journal

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