How to format your references using the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution citation style

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

Gasparini, N.M., 2014. Earth science: A fresh look at river flow. Nature 513, 490–491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laurance, W.F., Luizão, R.C.C., 2007. Driving a wedge into the Amazon. Nature 448, 409–410.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, C., Potter, A.C., Senthil, T., 2014. Classification of interacting electronic topological insulators in three dimensions. Science 343, 629–631.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jenni, S., Leibundgut, M., Boehringer, D., Frick, C., Mikolásek, B., Ban, N., 2007. Structure of fungal fatty acid synthase and implications for iterative substrate shuttling. Science 316, 254–261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lyatkher, V.M., 2015. Seismic Loads. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gaul, W., Geyer-Schulz, A., Baba, Y., Okada, A. (Eds.), 2014. German-Japanese Interchange of Data Analysis Results, Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Neby, S., 2016. Marketization and Accountability: Lessons from the Reforming Norwegian Healthcare System, in: Mattei, P. (Ed.), Public Accountability and Health Care Governance: Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy, Recent Reforms and Current Policy Changes. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 65–89.

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 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Plastic Banknotes: New Fingerprint Technique Means Criminals Can’t Avoid Capture [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1978. Comments on Legislation To Establish a Department of Education (No. B-149737). 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

Hausmann, R.C., 2015. Organizing Ecosystems for Social Innovation: The Relationality of Contexts and Mechanisms in a Social Entrepreneurship Network (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

James, S., 2017. Losing a Fortune. New York Times F4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gasparini, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gasparini, 2014; Laurance and Luizão, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Laurance and Luizão, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jenni et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Abbreviation	Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.
ISSN (print)	1055-7903
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Molecular Biology