How to format your references using the Evolutionary Psychological Science citation style

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

Bergman, L. (2005). Damned if you don’t. Nature, 435(7044), 1002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mukherjee, S., & Orth, K. (2008). Microbiology. A protein pupylation paradigm. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5904), 1062–1063.

A journal article with 3 authors

Innes, C., Anand, M., & Bauch, C. T. (2013). The impact of human-environment interactions on the stability of forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems. Scientific reports, 3, 2689.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Galperin, M., Ratner, M. A., Nitzan, A., & Troisi, A. (2008). Nuclear coupling and polarization in molecular transport junctions: beyond tunneling to function. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1056–1060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henderson, T. J. (2011). Beyond Borders. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Sinderen, M. van, Oude Luttighuis, P., Folmer, E., & Bosems, S. (Eds.). (2013). Enterprise Interoperability: 5th International IFIP Working Conference, IWEI 2013, Enschede, The Netherlands, March 27-28, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 144). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wagner, R. D. (2008). Effects of Microbiota on GI Health: Gnotobiotic Research. In G. B. Huffnagle & M. C. Noverr (Eds.), GI Microbiota and Regulation of the Immune System (pp. 41–56). New York, NY: 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 Psychological Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 20). What Are Fundamental Particles? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-are-fundamental-particles/. 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. (2006). Highlights of a GAO Forum: Managing the Supplier Base in the 21st Century (No. GAO-06-533SP). Washington, DC: 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

Branch, J. (2017). A Case Study of Perceptions and Experiences among African-American Males Regarding College Dropout Rates in a Community College (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Crow, K. (2002, February 3). Running in Place. New York Times, p. 141.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bergman 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bergman 2005; Mukherjee and Orth 2008).

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

Two authors: (Mukherjee and Orth 2008)
Three or more authors: (Galperin et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evolutionary Psychological Science
Abbreviation	Evol. Psychol. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2198-9885
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