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

Berendsen, H.J., 2001. Bioinformatics. Reality simulation--observe while it happens. Science 294, 2304–2305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, L., Wang, J., 2014. Arbitrary manipulation of spatial amplitude and phase using phase-only spatial light modulators. Sci. Rep. 4, 7441.

A journal article with 3 authors

García-Ruiz, J.M., Melero-García, E., Hyde, S.T., 2009. Morphogenesis of self-assembled nanocrystalline materials of barium carbonate and silica. Science 323, 362–365.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jovanovic, K., Gonsalves, D., Da Costa Dias, B., Moodley, K., Reusch, U., Knackmuss, S., Penny, C., Weinberg, M.S., Little, M., Weiss, S.F.T., 2013. Anti-LRP/LR specific antibodies and shRNAs impede amyloid beta shedding in Alzheimer’s disease. Sci. Rep. 3, 2699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iacus, S.M., 2011. Option Pricing and Estimation of Financial Models with R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Greene, F.L., Komorowski, A.L. (Eds.), 2012. Clinical Approach to Well-differentiated Thyroid Cancers, 1st ed. 2012. ed, Head and Neck Cancer Clinics. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Monti, J.M., Monti, D., 2008. Human Sleep, in: Verster, J.C., Pandi-Perumal, S.R., Streiner, D.L. (Eds.), Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 29–36.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Astronomers Have Observed Water Clouds In A Distant Star System [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-observed-water-clouds-on-a-failed-star/ (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, 2000. Electronic Signature: Sanction of the Department of State’s System (No. AIMD-00-227R). 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

Little, K., 2013. Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Mueller, B., Baker, A.L., 2016. Heroin Market Shapes Enforcer’s Rise and Fall. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berendsen, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Berendsen, 2001; Zhu and Wang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Wang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Jovanovic et al., 2013)

About the journal

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