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

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

Parsch J (2011) Evolution. The cost of being male. Science 332:798–799

A journal article with 2 authors

Hillaire-Marcel C, de Vernal A (2008) Comment on “Mixed-layer deepening during Heinrich events: a multi-planktonic foraminiferal delta18O approach.” Science 320:1161; author reply 1161

A journal article with 3 authors

Gugliotti LA, Feldheim DL, Eaton BE (2004) RNA-mediated metal-metal bond formation in the synthesis of hexagonal palladium nanoparticles. Science 304:850–852

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tsai W-W, Wang Z, Yiu TT, et al (2010) TRIM24 links a non-canonical histone signature to breast cancer. Nature 468:927–932

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dowrick DJ (2005) Earthquake Risk Reduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Italiano GF, Margaria-Steffen T, Pokorný J, et al (eds) (2015) SOFSEM 2015: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 41st International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Pec pod Sněžkou, Czech Republic, January 24-29, 2015. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Miron A-D, Gensel J, Villanova-Oliver M (2008) Semantic Analysis for the Geospatial Web – Application to OWL-DL Ontologies. In: Bertolotto M, Ray C, Li X (eds) Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 8th International Symposium, W2GIS 2008, Shanghai, China, December 11-12, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–49

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 Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Faster-Than-Light Travel: Are We There Yet? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/faster-light-travel-are-we-there-yet/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2010) Telecommunications: Information Collection and Management at the Federal Communications Commission. 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

Hirschy MA (2015) Differences in usage of federally funded insurance options by women. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Walsh MW (2012) How Plan to Help City Pay Pensions Backfired. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parsch 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hillaire-Marcel and de Vernal 2008; Parsch 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hillaire-Marcel and de Vernal 2008)
Three or more authors: (Tsai et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Abbreviation	J. Evol. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0936-9937
ISSN (online)	1432-1386
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics