How to format your references using the European Journal of Protistology citation style

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

Rice, T.M., 2002. Quantum mechanics. To condense or not to condense. Science 298, 760–761.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brunauer, R., Kennedy, B.K., 2015. Medicine. Progeria accelerates adult stem cell aging. Science 348, 1093–1094.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKinney, J.C., Tchekhovskoy, A., Blandford, R.D., 2013. Alignment of magnetized accretion disks and relativistic jets with spinning black holes. Science 339, 49–52.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choy, S.H., Al-Mekhlafi, H.M., Mahdy, M.A.K., Nasr, N.N., Sulaiman, M., Lim, Y.A.L., Surin, J., 2014. Prevalence and associated risk factors of Giardia infection among indigenous communities in rural Malaysia. Sci. Rep. 4, 6909.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stewart, J.M., 2001. Managing for World Class Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bässler, H.-J., 2013. Containment Technology: Progress in the Pharmaceutical and Food Processing Industry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kondo, K., Watanabe, T., 2015. Interactive Sketch Interpreter for Geometric Modeling, in: Cocchiarella, L. (Ed.), The Visual Language of Technique: Volume 2 - Heritage and Expectations in Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 29–48.

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 European Journal of Protistology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Rosetta’s Alice Instrument Returns First Science Data [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-s-alice-instrument-returns-first-science-data/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1996. Waste From School Lunches (No. RCED-96-128R). 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

Choubey, L., 2015. Quantitative Assessment of Fgfr1 Expression in Neurons and Glia of the Developing Mouse Brain (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Tackett, M., 2017. Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Victims Could Find Political Clout in Florida. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rice, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brunauer and Kennedy, 2015; Rice, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Brunauer and Kennedy, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Choy et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Protistology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Protistol.
ISSN (print)	0932-4739
Scope	Microbiology