How to format your references using the Experimental and Applied Acarology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental and Applied Acarology. 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

Ko H (2014) Neuroscience. Functional organization of synaptic connections in the neocortex. Science 346:555

A journal article with 2 authors

Margolis D, Bushman F (2014) HIV/AIDS. Persistence by proliferation? Science 345:143–144

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo F-Q, Okamoto M, Crawford NM (2003) Identification of a plant nitric oxide synthase gene involved in hormonal signaling. Science 302:100–103

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blewitt G, Lavallée D, Clarke P, Nurutdinov K (2001) A new global mode of Earth deformation: seasonal cycle detected. Science 294:2342–2345

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ronen T (2011) The Positive Power of Imagery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Langor DW, Sweeney J (eds) (2009) Ecological Impacts of Non-Native Invertebrates and Fungi on Terrestrial Ecosystems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Andersen ML, D’Almeida V, Ko GM, et al (2016) Care and Maintenance of Laboratory Animals. In: Andersen ML, Tufik S (eds) Rodent Model as Tools in Ethical Biomedical Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 23–37

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 Experimental and Applied Acarology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Biggest Source of Plastic Trash You’ve Never Heard Of. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/biggest-source-plastic-trash-you-ve-never-heard/. 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 (1996) Intercollegiate Athletics: Status of Efforts to Promote Gender Equity. 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

Ward CS (2012) Movin’ Around. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Diamond J (2017) Finding My Florida. New York Times TR1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ko 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Margolis and Bushman 2014; Ko 2014).

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

Two authors: (Margolis and Bushman 2014)
Three or more authors: (Blewitt et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental and Applied Acarology
Abbreviation	Exp. Appl. Acarol.
ISSN (print)	0168-8162
ISSN (online)	1572-9702
Scope	Insect Science Ecology General Medicine