How to format your references using the Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Henrich, J. (2004). Animal behaviour: inequity aversion in capuchins? Nature, 428(6979), 139; discussion 140.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyons, J. R., & Young, E. D. (2005). CO self-shielding as the origin of oxygen isotope anomalies in the early solar nebula. Nature, 435(7040), 317–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wall, D. H., Nielsen, U. N., & Six, J. (2015). Soil biodiversity and human health. Nature, 528(7580), 69–76.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yoo, S.-J., Chang, J.-H., Lee, J.-H., Moon, C.-K., Wu, C.-I., & Kim, J.-J. (2014). Formation of perfect ohmic contact at indium tin oxide/N,N’-di(naphthalene-1-yl)-N,N’-diphenyl-benzidine interface using ReO3. Scientific Reports, 4, 3902.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allman, K., & Nogales, X. E. D. (2015). Impact Investment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wenzel, F., & Zschau, J. (Eds.). (2014). Early Warning for Geological Disasters: Scientific Methods and Current Practice. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marder, L., & Pérez Herranz, V. (2014). Electrodialysis Control Parameters. In A. Moura Bernardes, M. A. Siqueira Rodrigues, & J. Zoppas Ferreira (Eds.), Electrodialysis and Water Reuse: Novel Approaches (pp. 25–39). Springer.

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 Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 4). Wasps Use Facial Recognition To Identify Intruders. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tropical-wasps-use-facial-recognition-identify-intruders/

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. (1975). Food and Drug Administration’s Investigation of Defective Cardiac Pacemakers Recalled by the General Electric Company (MWD-75-71). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yu, W. (2012). Impacts of storms and sea-level rise on coastal evolution between two capes: Onslow Bay, North Carolina [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, December 16). One More From The Heart. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Henrich, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Henrich, 2004; Lyons & Young, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lyons & Young, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yoo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
Abbreviation	Evol. Behav. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2330-2925
ISSN (online)	2330-2933
Scope	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Psychology