How to format your references using the Theoretical Population Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical Population Biology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Baldauf, S.L., 2003. The deep roots of eukaryotes. Science 300, 1703–1706.
A journal article with 2 authors
Fisher, A.T., Becker, K., 2000. Channelized fluid flow in oceanic crust reconciles heat-flow and permeability data. Nature 403, 71–74.
A journal article with 3 authors
Meeusen, S., McCaffery, J.M., Nunnari, J., 2004. Mitochondrial fusion intermediates revealed in vitro. Science 305, 1747–1752.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Koren, I., Kaufman, Y.J., Remer, L.A., Martins, J.V., 2004. Measurement of the effect of Amazon smoke on inhibition of cloud formation. Science 303, 1342–1345.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Bayor, R.H., 2017. Fiorello La Guardia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Bonacker, T., Safferling, C. (Eds.), 2013. Victims of International Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Discourse. T. M. C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands.
A chapter in an edited book
Parrochia, D., Neuville, P., 2013. Generalized Classifications, in: Neuville, P. (Ed.), Towards a General Theory of Classifications. Springer, Basel, pp. 125–145.

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 Theoretical Population Biology.

Blog post
Carpineti, A., 2015. Russia And Europe Collaborate On A Joint Mission To The Moon [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, 2009. Grant Monitoring: Department of Education Could Improve Its Processes with Greater Focus on Assessing Risks, Acquiring Financial Skills, and Sharing Information (No. GAO-10-57). 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
Johnson, J.M., 2013. Service learning: Providing the building blocks for a socially responsible nursing role (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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., 2010. One Man, Two Courts. New York Times WK11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baldauf, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Baldauf, 2003; Fisher and Becker, 2000).

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

  • Two authors: (Fisher and Becker, 2000)
  • Three or more authors: (Koren et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleTheoretical Population Biology
AbbreviationTheor. Popul. Biol.
ISSN (print)0040-5809
ScopeEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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