Style Error: Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Hi there,

I have recently installed this citation style (Methods in Ecology and Evolution) and found something weird. In the reference list all the items provide "Retrieving information". See the next example:
Ashcroft, M.B., Gollan, J.R., Faith, D.P., Carter, G.A., Lassau, S.A., Ginn, S.G., Bulbert, M.W. & Cassis, G. (2010). Using Generalised Dissimilarity Models and many small samples to improve the efficiency of regional and landscape scale invertebrate sampling. Ecological Informatics, 5, 124–132. Retrieved May 30, 2014,
However, this information is not requested by the journal. This is the section for references from the author guideline:
References in the text should be separated by a semi-colon. Papers with more than three authors should be abbreviated: (Manel et al. 1999). Work with the same first author and date should be coded by letters: (Thompson et al. 1991a,b). References should be listed in chronological order within the text. The references in the list should be in alphabetical order with the journal name in full. The format should be as follows:

  • Begon, M., Harper, J.L. & Townsend, C.R. (1996) Ecology: Individuals, Populations and Communities, 3rd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
  • Tuyttens, F.A.M. (1999) The consequences of social perturbation caused by badger removal for the control of bovine tuberculosis in cattle: a study of behaviour, population dynamics and epidemiology. PhD thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford.
  • McArthur, W.M. (1993) History of landscape development. Reintegrating Fragmented Landscapes (eds R.J. Hobbs & D.A. Saunders), pp. 10-22. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
  • Hill, M.O., Roy, D.B., Mountford, J.O. & Bunce, R.G.H. (2000) Extending Ellenberg's indicator values to a new area: an algorithmic approach. Journal of Applied Ecology, 37, 3-15.
  • R Development Core Team (2009) R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna. URL http://www.R-project.org [accessed 18 November 2009]
References should be cited as 'in press' only if the paper has been accepted for publication. Work not yet submitted for publication or under review should be cited as 'unpublished data', with the author's initials and surname given; such work should not be included in the Reference section. Any paper cited as 'in press' or under review elsewhere must be uploaded as part of the manuscript submission as a file 'not for review' so that it can be seen by the editors and, if necessary, made available to the referees.
And these are several examples from a recent paper published in the journal:
  • Araujo,M.B. & Luoto,M. (2007) The importance of biotic interactions for modelling species distributions under climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16, 743–753.
  • Austin, M.P. (2002) Spatial prediction of species distribution: an interface between ecological theory and statistical modelling. Ecological Modelling, 157, 101–118.
  • Austin,M.P., Cunningham, R.B. & Wood, J.T. (1983) The subgeneric composition of Eucalypt forest stands in a region of south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 31, 63–71.
  • Chardon, V. (1998) Effects of habitat fragmentation and road density on the distribution pattern of the moor frog Rana arvalis. Journal of Applied Ecology, 35, 44–45.
  • Chib, S.&Greenberg, E. (1998)Analysis of multivariate probitmodels. Biometrika, 85, 347–361.
  • Clark, J.S., Gelfand, A.E., Woodall, C.W. & Zhu, K. (In press) More than the sum of the parts: forest climate response from Joint Species Distribution Models. Ecological Applications, (in press) doi:10.1890/13-1015.1.
  • R Core Team (2013) R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. RFoundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna,Austria.
Best,
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