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

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

Mikaloff-Fletcher SE (2015) CLIMATE. An increasing carbon sink? Science 349:1165

A journal article with 2 authors

Pyenson ND, Pyenson L (2005) Treating medieval manuscripts as fossils. Science 309:698–701; author reply 698-701

A journal article with 3 authors

Kearns M, Suri S, Montfort N (2006) An experimental study of the coloring problem on human subject networks. Science 313:824–827

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dobson AP, Borner M, Sinclair ARE, et al (2010) Road will ruin Serengeti. Nature 467:272–273

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Popescu D, Gharbi A, Stefanoiu D, Borne P (2017) Process Control Design for Industrial Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Krupnik I, Aporta C, Gearheard S, et al (eds) (2010) SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Bernas M, Płaczek B (2015) Energy Aware Object Localization in Wireless Sensor Network Based on Wi-Fi Fingerprinting. In: Gaj P, Kwiecień A, Stera P (eds) Computer Networks: 22nd International Conference, CN 2015, Brunów, Poland, June 16-19, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 33–42

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 Molecular Evolution.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) SpaceX Will Launch Its First Rocket In Five Months This Sunday. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-will-launch-its-first-rocket-in-five-months-this-sunday/. 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 (2008) Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Strengthened Planning to Guide Investments in Key Aviation Security Programs, but More Work Remains. 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

VanQuickenborne T (2010) Exploring generative change. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Greenhouse L (2017) Searching for the Mainstream. New York Times A27

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mikaloff-Fletcher 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pyenson and Pyenson 2005; Mikaloff-Fletcher 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pyenson and Pyenson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Dobson et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Evolution
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Evol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2844
ISSN (online)	1432-1432
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Molecular Biology