How to format your references using the Journal of Evolutionary Economics citation style

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

Smaglik P (2003) Ground control. Nature 421:969

A journal article with 2 authors

Kemp C, Regier T (2012) Kinship categories across languages reflect general communicative principles. Science 336:1049–1054

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitmarsh RB, Manatschal G, Minshull TA (2001) Evolution of magma-poor continental margins from rifting to seafloor spreading. Nature 413:150–154

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Karol KG, McCourt RM, Cimino MT, Delwiche CF (2001) The closest living relatives of land plants. Science 294:2351–2353

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singh MP, Huhns MN (2006) Service-Oriented Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Posta PD (2007) Effetti, potenzialità e limiti della globalizzazione: Una visione multidisciplinare. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Ding J, Schmidt D (2013) Solving Degree and Degree of Regularity for Polynomial Systems over a Finite Fields. In: Fischlin M, Katzenbeisser S (eds) Number Theory and Cryptography: Papers in Honor of Johannes Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 34–49

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 Evolutionary Economics.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Goliath Grouper Fish Swallows 5 Foot Shark In A Single Bite. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/goliath-grouper-fish-swallows-5-foot-shark-single-bite/. 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 (2000) Final Certification of TAP Fund. 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

Walsh CT (2005) Molecular Pharmacodynamics of Chemotherapy: Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) Inhibitors as Chemosensitizers. 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

Billard M (2010) A Pop-Up Showcase. New York Times E6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Kemp and Regier 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kemp and Regier 2012)
Three or more authors: (Karol et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Abbreviation	J. Evol. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0936-9937
ISSN (online)	1432-1386
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics