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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

May, P.W., 2008. Materials science. The new diamond age? Science 319, 1490–1491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spaldin, N.A., Fiebig, M., 2005. Materials science. The renaissance of magnetoelectric multiferroics. Science 309, 391–392.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsiang, S.M., Burke, M., Miguel, E., 2013. Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict. Science 341, 1235367.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, W., Tong, Y., Wang, H., Chen, L., Ou, L., Wang, X., Liu, G., Zhu, Y., 2014. Emission of metals from pelletized and uncompressed biomass fuels combustion in rural household stoves in China. Sci. Rep. 4, 5611.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allin, P., Hand, D.J., 2014. The Wellbeing of Nations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Dilek, Y., Furnes, H. (Eds.), 2014. Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life, Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Mostaghim, S., Teich, J., 2005. Quad-trees: A Data Structure for Storing Pareto Sets in Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms with Elitism, in: Abraham, A., Jain, L., Goldberg, R. (Eds.), Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Theoretical Advances and Applications, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London, pp. 81–104.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Here’s Why You Should Be Sleeping Naked [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/here-s-why-you-should-be-sleeping-naked/ (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, 1991. Highway Safety: Have Automobile Weight Reductions Increased Highway Fatalities? (No. PEMD-92-1). 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

Morissette, T.M., 2009. Elder friendliness and social participation of older adults living within age-segregated retirement communities (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Shpigel, B., 2016. Listen for the Ball, Then Try to Stop It. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (May, 2008; Spaldin and Fiebig, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Spaldin and Fiebig, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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