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

Smaglik, P., 2003. Singapore: filling biopolis. Nature 425, 746–747.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Wit, J., Seager, S., 2013. Constraining exoplanet mass from transmission spectroscopy. Science 342, 1473–1477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cochran, W.W., Mouritsen, H., Wikelski, M., 2004. Migrating songbirds recalibrate their magnetic compass daily from twilight cues. Science 304, 405–408.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wong, Y.H., Ryu, T., Seridi, L., Ghosheh, Y., Bougouffa, S., Qian, P.-Y., Ravasi, T., 2014. Transcriptome analysis elucidates key developmental components of bryozoan lophophore development. Sci. Rep. 4, 6534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neuber, A., Nuttall, T., 2017. Diagnostic Techniques in Veterinary Dermatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Bolay, J.-C., Hostettler, S., Hazboun, E. (Eds.), 2014. Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty? Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Järvinen, J., Huomo, T., Mikkonen, T., Tyrväinen, P., 2014. From Agile Software Development to Mercury Business, in: Lassenius, C., Smolander, K. (Eds.), Software Business. Towards Continuous Value Delivery: 5th International Conference, ICSOB 2014, Paphos, Cyprus, June 16-18, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 58–71.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Scientists Believe They Have Explained The Great Flu Outbreak Of 1918 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-believe-they-have-explained-great-flu-outbreak-1918/ (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, 1990. Highway Financing: Participating States Benefit Under Toll Facilities Pilot Program (No. RCED-91-46). 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

Yalof, B., 2012. Marshaling Resources: A Classic Grounded Theory Study of Online Learners (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Grynbaum, M.M., 2017. ‘Wow’: Stunned Cable News Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (de Wit and Seager, 2013; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (de Wit and Seager, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wong et al., 2014)

About the journal

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