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

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Mitchell K. Journal club. A neurodevelopmental geneticist explores how one mutation can lead to multiple diseases. Nature. 2010 Apr 22;464(7292):1107. PubMed PMID: 20414273.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Chouard T, Gray N. Glia. Nature. 2010 Nov 11;468(7321):213. PubMed PMID: 21068829.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Kislev ME, Hartmann A, Bar-Yosef O. Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science. 2006 Jun 2;312(5778):1372–1374. PubMed PMID: 16741119.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Karpen JT, Krimigis SM, Appleby JF, Lawler A. NASA’s Living with a Star Initiative. Science. 2000 Aug 25;289(5483):1296. PubMed PMID: 17772991.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Denny HR, Butterworth SJ. A Guide to Canine and Feline Orthopaedic Surgery, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008 Apr 16.

An edited book

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Zhang J, Luna-Reyes LF, Pardo TA, Sayogo DS, eds. Information, Models, and Sustainability: Policy Informatics in the Age of Big Data and Open Government, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Micciancio D, Regev O. Lattice-based Cryptography, in: D.J. Bernstein, J. Buchmann, E. Dahmen (Eds.), Post-Quantum Cryptography, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 147–191.

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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Davis J. Brazil’s Largest Ever Dinosaur Rediscovered After 60 Years In A Cupboard, IFLScience. 2016 Oct 10. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brazils-largest-ever-dinosaur-rediscovered-after-60-years-in-a-cupboard/ (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. Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005 Jan 28.

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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Lizarraga D. Effects of large inedible particles on the feeding performance of echinodem larvae, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

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Higgins A. Lawyers Hint At Possibility Of Recovery Of Stolen Art, New York Times. 2013 Aug 13 A8.

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