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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gravitz L (2012) Food science: taste bud hackers. Nature 486: S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gavrilets S, Losos JB (2009) Adaptive radiation: contrasting theory with data. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 732–737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell A, Wei P, Lim WA (2015) Oscillatory stress stimulation uncovers an Achilles’ heel of the yeast MAPK signaling network. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350: 1379–1383.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chanelière T, Matsukevich DN, Jenkins SD, Lan S-Y, Kennedy TAB, Kuzmich A (2005) Storage and retrieval of single photons transmitted between remote quantum memories. Nature 438: 833–836.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe HE (2001) Electromagnetic Propagation in Multi-Mode Random Media. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA.

An edited book

Goldsmith W (2014) Bioengineering Case Studies: Sustainable Stream Bank and Slope Stabilization. Gray D, McCullah J (Eds). Springer, New York, NY, XIX, 244 p. 190 illus., 184 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang W, Liu D, Li G, Zhang W (2006) Special Task Scheduling and Control of Cluster Parallel Computing for High-Performance Ground Processing System. In: Alexandrov VN, Albada GD van, Sloot PMA, Dongarra J (Eds), Computational Science – ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference, Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006. Proceedings, Part III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 17–23.

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

Carpineti A (2016) New Theory Of Gravity Tries To Explain Dark Matter. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-theory-of-gravity-tries-to-explain-dark-matter/ (October 30, 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Additional Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services. 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

Herman GS (2013) Terahertz local oscillator via difference frequency generation in iii-v semiconductors using frequency stabilized lasers. 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

Ortved J (2016) Trading a T Square for Showbiz. New York Times: D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gavrilets and Losos 2009, Gravitz 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gavrilets and Losos 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chanelière et al. 2005)

About the journal

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