How to format your references using the Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 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

McCabe H (2000) France sets up elite Internet school. Nature 405:381

A journal article with 2 authors

Rauch SL, Carlezon WA Jr (2013) Neuroscience. Illuminating the neural circuitry of compulsive behaviors. Science 340:1174–1175

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaedler TA, Jacobsen AJ, Carter WB (2013) Materials science. Toward lighter, stiffer materials. Science 341:1181–1182

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sun H, Wei Y, Deng H, et al (2014) Label-free cell phenotypic profiling decodes the composition and signaling of an endogenous ATP-sensitive potassium channel. Sci Rep 4:4934

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee YS (2011) Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

González-Aguilar H, Ugalde E (eds) (2015) Nonlinear Dynamics New Directions: Models and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Downs M, Jones GA (2016) Möbius Inversion in Suzuki Groups and Enumeration of Regular Objects. In: Širáň J, Jajcay R (eds) Symmetries in Graphs, Maps, and Polytopes: 5th SIGMAP Workshop, West Malvern, UK, July 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 97–127

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 Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) New Claim Adds More Madness To The Bermuda Triangle Theories. In: IFLScience. 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 (1997) Air Traffic Control: Complete and Enforced Architecture Needed for FAA Systems Modernization. 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

Weissflug KG (2009) Effects of Positive Behavior Support Programs on Student Behaviors. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF (2010) Motion Comic Recalls Rescuers In Holocaust. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCabe 2000).
This sentence cites two references (McCabe 2000; Rauch and Carlezon 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rauch and Carlezon 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
Abbreviation	Orig. Life Evol. Biosph.
ISSN (print)	0169-6149
ISSN (online)	1573-0875
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Space and Planetary Science General Medicine