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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Evolution. 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	Download the output style file
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

Fratzl P (2014) Applied physics: The virtues of tiling. Nature 516:178–179

A journal article with 2 authors

Magurran AE, Henderson PA (2003) Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species abundance distributions. Nature 422:714–716

A journal article with 3 authors

Obata Y, Kono T, Hatada I (2002) Gene silencing: maturation of mouse fetal germ cells in vitro. Nature 418:497

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Choate KA, Lu Y, Zhou J, et al (2010) Mitotic recombination in patients with ichthyosis causes reversion of dominant mutations in KRT10. Science 330:94–97

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kunz W (2016) Species Conservation in Managed Habitats. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Rau PLP (ed) (2013) Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case Studies: 5th International Conference, CCD 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jørgensen SE (2007) Application of ecological engineering principles in landscape management. In: Mander Ü, Wiggering H, Helming K (eds) Multifunctional Land Use: Meeting Future Demands for Landscape Goods and Services. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–92

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 Molecular Evolution.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Oldest Man In History Claims To Be 145 But Wants To Die. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/oldest-man-in-history-claims-to-be-145-but-wants-to-die/. 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) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Progress of the Global Hawk Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration. 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

Wilensky SE (2010) 340B prime vendor program: Health center decision making and barriers to participation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kepner T (2017) A Racist Gesture Results in a Delayed Punishment. New York Times SP3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fratzl 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Magurran and Henderson 2003; Fratzl 2014).

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

Two authors: (Magurran and Henderson 2003)
Three or more authors: (Choate et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Evolution
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Evol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2844
ISSN (online)	1432-1432
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Molecular Biology