How to format your references using the Journal of Evolutionary Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kasting, J.F. 2013. Atmospheric science. How was early Earth kept warm? Science 339: 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Y. & Daum, P.H. 2002. Anthropogenic aerosols. Indirect warming effect from dispersion forcing. Nature 419: 580–581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nelson, F.E., Anisimov, O.A. & Shiklomanov, N.I. 2001. Subsidence risk from thawing permafrost. Nature 410: 889–890.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McIsaac, G.F., David, M.B., Gertner, G.Z. & Goolsby, D.A. 2001. Nitrate flux in the Mississippi River. Nature 414: 166–167.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazemi, G.A., Lehr, J.H. & Perrochet, P. 2006. Groundwater Age. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Herrmann, H.C. (ed). 2005. Interventional Cardiology: Percutaneous Noncoronary Intervention. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Pan, M. & Czarnik, C. 2016. Image Detectors for Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy (ETEM). In: Controlled Atmosphere Transmission Electron Microscopy: Principles and Practice (T. W. Hansen & J. B. Wagner, eds), pp. 143–164. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Evolutionary Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. 2014. The Black Dragons of the Sea. 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. 1990. Airline Competition: DOT and Justice Oversight of Eastern Air Lines’ Bankruptcy. 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

Heffner, M.D. 2017. Informing Decision-Making for Derailments Involving Hazmat: An Analysis of Phmsa Train Accident Data. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Clarke, J. 2016. What’s the Circuit’s Most Fearsome Bull Afraid Of? You Name It.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kasting, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Liu & Daum, 2002; Kasting, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Liu & Daum, 2002)
Three or more authors: (McIsaac et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Abbreviation	J. Evol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1010-061X
ISSN (online)	1420-9101
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics