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

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

Chapman, C.R., 2000. Meteorites. The long trip to Earth. Nature. 407, 573, 575–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barry, C., Doeller, C.F., 2013. Neuroscience. 3D mapping in the brain. Science (New York, N.Y.). 340, 279–280.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guiteras, R., Levinsohn, J., Mobarak, A.M., 2015. Sanitation subsidies. Encouraging sanitation investment in the developing world: a cluster-randomized trial. Science (New York, N.Y.). 348, 903–906.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ogawa, H., Amagai, Y., Koike, I., Kaiser, K., Benner, R., 2001. Production of refractory dissolved organic matter by bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.). 292, 917–920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marx, F.G., Lambert, O., Uhen, M.D., 2016. Cetacean Paleobiology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hofmann, E., 2014. Performance Measurement and Incentive Systems in Purchasing: More Than Just Savings, Professional Supply Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Pattillo, J., Youssef, N., Butenko, S., 2012. Clique Relaxation Models in Social Network Analysis. In: Thai, M.T., Pardalos, P.M. (Eds.), Handbook of Optimization in Complex Networks: Communication and Social Networks, Springer Optimization and Its Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 143–162.

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 Human Evolution.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Single Shot Could Replace Spaying And Neutering [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-single-shot-replace-spaying-and-neutering/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. Federal Communications Commission: Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2000 ( No. OGC-00-50). 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

Potter, R.H., 2009. Diffusion of oxygen and lithium isotopes at a contact between the Bushveld Complex and metasedimentary rock: Implications for the timescale of Phepane Dome diapirism (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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, M.W., 2011. A Proposal for Drawing a Clearer Picture of Public Pension Finances. New York Times. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman, 2000; Barry and Doeller, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Barry and Doeller, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ogawa et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Human Evolution
Abbreviation	J. Hum. Evol.
ISSN (print)	0047-2484
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Anthropology