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

Perepezko JH (2009) Materials science. The hotter the engine, the better. Science 326:1068–1069

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborn TJ, Briffa KR (2004) Climate. The real color of climate change? Science 306:621–622

A journal article with 3 authors

Mulepati S, Héroux A, Bailey S (2014) Structural biology. Crystal structure of a CRISPR RNA-guided surveillance complex bound to a ssDNA target. Science 345:1479–1484

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhao W, Sun Y, Balsam W, et al (2014) Hf-Nd isotopic variability in mineral dust from Chinese and Mongolian deserts: implications for sources and dispersal. Sci Rep 4:5837

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vitale J, Len IH (2008) Zero Limits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cantoni L, Xiang Z (phil) (eds) (2013) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013: Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, Austria, January 22-25, 2013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rieken B, Gelo OCG (2015) The Philosophy of Psychotherapy Science: Mainstream and Alternative Views. In: Gelo OCG, Pritz A, Rieken B (eds) Psychotherapy Research: Foundations, Process, and Outcome. Springer, Vienna, pp 67–92

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

Fang J (2014) Newly Discovered Gut Virus Is In At Least Half of All Humans. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/newly-discovered-gut-virus-least-half-all-humans/. 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 (1999) Month In Review, April 1999: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications. 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

Koval BC (2016) Undergraduate Students in Paraprofessional Roles and their Use of Online Social Networks. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Vecsey G (2010) Rematch 45 Years In the Making. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perepezko 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Osborn and Briffa 2004; Perepezko 2009).

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

Two authors: (Osborn and Briffa 2004)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2014)

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