How to format your references using the Evolutionary Systematics citation style

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

Falk D (2000) Careers in science offer women an unusual bonus: immortality. Nature 407: 833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hitz M-P, Andelfinger G (2015) Cardiology: Race for healthy hearts. Nature 520: 160–161.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branch TA, Hively DJ, Hilborn R (2013) Is the ocean food provision index biased? Nature 495: E5-6; discussion E7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rossiter SJ, Ransome RD, Faulkes CG, Le Comber SC, Jones G (2005) Mate fidelity and intra-lineage polygyny in greater horseshoe bats. Nature 437: 408–411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peterson RL, Murtha FF (2010) MarketPsych. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hähnel S (Ed.) (2009) Inflammatory Diseases of the Brain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XII, 240 p. 352 illus., 9 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ellis GFR (2009) Top-Down Causation and the Human Brain. In: Murphy N, Ellis GFR, O’Connor T (Eds), Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 63–81.

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 Systematics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) A Storm Knocked This Tree Over, And A Skeleton Was Found Hanging From The Roots. IFLScience.

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) Reports and Testimony: August 1991. 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

Greene B (2017) Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona

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

Baker L (2005) Can a City Grow Quickly And Stay Simple? New York Times: 119.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Falk 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Falk 2000, Hitz and Andelfinger 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hitz and Andelfinger 2015)
Three or more authors: (Rossiter et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Systematics
ISSN (online)	2535-0730
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