How to format your references using the Journal of Evolution and Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Evolution and Health. 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

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Johns-Krull CM. Astrophysics: Secret ingredient exposed. Nature. 2014 Oct 30;514(7524):571–572. PubMed PMID: 25337884.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Phillips-Silver J, Trainor LJ. Feeling the beat: movement influences infant rhythm perception. Science. 2005 Jun 3;308(5727):1430. PubMed PMID: 15933193.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Bingenheimer JB, Brennan RT, Earls FJ. Firearm violence exposure and serious violent behavior. Science. 2005 May 27;308(5726):1323–1326. PubMed PMID: 15919997.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Lancrin C, Sroczynska P, Stephenson C, Allen T, Kouskoff V, Lacaud G. The haemangioblast generates haematopoietic cells through a haemogenic endothelium stage. Nature. 2009 Feb 12;457(7231):892–895. PubMed PMID: 19182774.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Illian J, Penttinen A, Stoyan H, Stoyan D. Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2008 Jan 22.

An edited book

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Asson-Batres MA, Rochette-Egly C, eds. The Biochemistry of Retinoic Acid Receptors I: Structure, Activation, and Function at the Molecular Level, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

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Sandberg R, Rollins M. Develop Apps Like a Pro, in: M. Rollins (Ed.), The Business of Android Apps Development: Making and Marketing Apps That Succeed on Google Play, Amazon App Store and More, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2013: pp. 51–62.

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 Journal of Evolution and Health.

Blog post

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Andrew E. Asteroids Might Have Delivered Water To Earth, IFLScience. 2015 May 7. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroids-might-have-delivered-water-earth/ (accessed October 30, 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

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Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Risk of Serious Disruption to Essential Government Functions Calls for Agency Action Now, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997 Feb 27.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Anderson PM. Persistent Genomic Consequences of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Measured in Adolescent Rat Brain, 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

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Kishkovsky S. Moscow Talking of Arson As Fire Toll Climbs to 36, New York Times. 2003 Nov 25 A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Evolution and Health
Abbreviation	J. Evol. Health
ISSN (online)	2334-3591
Scope