How to format your references using the Evolutionary Ecology citation style

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

Marbán E (2002) Cardiac channelopathies. Nature 415:213–218

A journal article with 2 authors

Harper GR Jr, Pfennig DW (2008) Selection overrides gene flow to break down maladaptive mimicry. Nature 451:1103–1106

A journal article with 3 authors

Labidi J, Cartigny P, Moreira M (2013) Non-chondritic sulphur isotope composition of the terrestrial mantle. Nature 501:208–211

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liao JC, Beal DN, Lauder GV, Triantafyllou MS (2003) Fish exploiting vortices decrease muscle activity. Science 302:1566–1569

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malamed C (2015) Visual Design Solutions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Badescu V, Zacny K (eds) (2015) Inner Solar System: Prospective Energy and Material Resources. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Fidancevska E, Bossert J, Vassilev V, Milosevski M (2011) Fabrication of Porous and Dense Ceramics from Transitional Nano-Alumina. In: Reithmaier JP, Paunovic P, Kulisch W, et al. (eds) Nanotechnological Basis for Advanced Sensors. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–50

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 Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Gawker Had Its Problems, But Its Death Is Worrying For All Watchdog Journalist. 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 (1980) A Look at NASA’s Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program. 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

Yoon J (2012) Jan Radzynski’s Canto (1981): An Introductory View of Its Genre, Style, and Form, with Suggestions for Performance. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Thrush G, Kelly K, Haberman M (2017) Widespread Cuts in Trump Budget Bypass Military. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marbán 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Marbán 2002; Harper and Pfennig 2008).

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

Two authors: (Harper and Pfennig 2008)
Three or more authors: (Liao et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Ecology
Abbreviation	Evol. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0269-7653
ISSN (online)	1573-8477
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics