How to format your references using the Journal of Evolution and Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Evolution and Health. 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

(1)

Cunningham T. Graduate journal: show us the money! Nature. 2004 Jun 24;429(6994):906. PubMed PMID: 15215870.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Li C, Thompson CB. Cancer. DNA damage, deamidation, and death. Science. 2002 Nov 15;298(5597):1346–1347. PubMed PMID: 12434041.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Lu D, Searles MA, Klug A. Crystal structure of a zinc-finger-RNA complex reveals two modes of molecular recognition. Nature. 2003 Nov 6;426(6962):96–100. PubMed PMID: 14603324.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Jacobs GH, Williams GA, Cahill H, Nathans J. Emergence of novel color vision in mice engineered to express a human cone photopigment. Science. 2007 Mar 23;315(5819):1723–1725. PubMed PMID: 17379811.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Wasson CS. System Analysis, Design, and Development, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005 Sep 9.

An edited book

(1)

Gatti G, Pravettoni G, Capello F, eds. Tele-oncology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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Bertot Y. Structural Abstract Interpretation: A Formal Study Using Coq, in: A. Bove, L.S. Barbosa, A. Pardo, J.S. Pinto (Eds.), Language Engineering and Rigorous Software Development: International LerNet ALFA Summer School 2008, Piriapolis, Uruguay, February 24 - March 1, 2008, Revised Tutorial Lectures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 153–194.

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 Journal of Evolution and Health.

Blog post

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Luntz S. Global Warming Increases New York Flooding Danger 20-Fold, IFLScience. 2015 Sep 30. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-warming-increases-new-york-flooding-danger-twenty-fold/ (accessed 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

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Government Accountability Office. Aviation Finance: Observations on the Effects of Budget Uncertainty on FAA, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015 Nov 19.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Boyd JL. Interactive simulations: Improving learning retention in knowledge-based online training courses, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2017.

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

(1)

Gabler E, Fink S, Yee V. A Preventable Descent Into Suffocating Chaos, New York Times. 2017 Sep 23 A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Evolution and Health
Abbreviation	J. Evol. Health
ISSN (online)	2334-3591
Scope