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

Bürgmann, R. (2014). Earth science: Warning signs of the Iquique earthquake. Nature, 512(7514), 258–259.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaeberlein, M., & Kapahi, P. (2009). Cell signaling. Aging is RSKy business. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5949), 55–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irvine, W. T. M., Vitelli, V., & Chaikin, P. M. (2010). Pleats in crystals on curved surfaces. Nature, 468(7326), 947–951.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xu, W., Ding, G., Yokawa, K., Baluška, F., Li, Q.-F., Liu, Y., et al. (2013). An improved agar-plate method for studying root growth and response of Arabidopsis thaliana. Scientific reports, 3, 1273.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kondrashov, A. S. (2017). Crumbling Genome. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Daněk, M. (2013). UTLEON3: Exploring Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in FPGAs. (L. Kafka, L. Kohout, J. Sýkora, & R. Bartosinski, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cantz, T., Sharma, A. D., Manns, M. P., & Ott, M. (2016). Liver. In G. Steinhoff (Ed.), Regenerative Medicine - from Protocol to Patient: 5. Regenerative Therapies II (pp. 145–177). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, June 23). New Smart Insulin Patch Could Be a ‘Game Changer.’ IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2008). Medicare: Callers Can Access 1-800-MEDICARE Services, but Responsibility within CMS for Limited English Proficiency Plan Unclear (No. GAO-09-104). 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

Parkinson, M. M. (2011). Adult readers’ calibration of word learning (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Crow, K. (2001, June 3). Pool or Gym? A Task Force Chooses Both. New York Times, p. 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bürgmann 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bürgmann 2014; Kaeberlein and Kapahi 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kaeberlein and Kapahi 2009)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2013)

About the journal

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