How to format your references using the Evolutionary Bioinformatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evolutionary Bioinformatics. 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

Zubairy MS. Physics. Factoring numbers with waves. Science 2007; 316: 554–555.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimura S, Yoshioka K. Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone type-1 receptor accelerate myocyte differentiation. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryu WS, Berry RM, Berg HC. Torque-generating units of the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli have a high duty ratio. Nature 2000; 403: 444–447.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schueler-Furman O, Wang C, Bradley P, et al. Progress in modeling of protein structures and interactions. Science 2005; 310: 638–642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knuth E. Trading Between the Lines. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Casanovas P, Sartor G, Casellas N, et al. (eds). Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Beckers D. Patterns of Facilitation. In: Beckers D, Buck M (eds) PNF in Practice: An Illustrated Guide. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014, pp. 63–68.

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 Bioinformatics.

Blog post

Fang J. New Hominin Species Discovered in Ethiopia. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-hominin-species-discovered-ethiopia/ (2015, accessed 30 October 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. Amtrak: Information on Amtrak’s Operating Expenses. RCED-92-177FS, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 23 April 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gindin M. Identification and Characterization of Putative Secreted Proteins from the Adult-Stage Hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum. Doctoral Dissertation, George Washington University, 2012.

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

Belson K, Medina J, Pérez-Peña R. Sniper Inflicts ‘Total Chaos’ in Las Vegas; Police Seek a Motive as Death Toll Hits 59. New York Times, 2 October 2017, p. A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Abbreviation	Evol. Bioinform. Online
ISSN (online)	1176-9343
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Computer Science Applications