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

Bass, S.D., 2007. Physics. How does the proton spin? Science 315, 1672–1673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hightower, M., Pierce, S.A., 2008. The energy challenge. Nature 452, 285–286.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lackner, L.L., Horner, J.S., Nunnari, J., 2009. Mechanistic analysis of a dynamin effector. Science 325, 874–877.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meyers, D., Mukherjee, S., Cheng, J.-G., Middey, S., Zhou, J.-S., Goodenough, J.B., Gray, B.A., Freeland, J.W., Saha-Dasgupta, T., Chakhalian, J., 2013. Zhang-Rice physics and anomalous copper states in A-site ordered perovskites. Sci. Rep. 3, 1834.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hobkirk, J.A., Gill, D.S., Jones, S.P., Hemmings, K.W., Bassi, G.S., O’Donnell, A.L., Goodman, J.R., 2010. Hypodontia. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Koch, R., Huang, F. (Eds.), 2011. Computer Vision – ACCV 2010 Workshops: ACCV 2010 International Workshops, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 8-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Whatmore, R., 2014. Characterisation of Pyroelectric Materials, in: Cain, M.G. (Ed.), Characterisation of Ferroelectric Bulk Materials and Thin Films, Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 65–86.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. New Model Can Measure The Mass Of Pulsars Even If They Are All Alone [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-model-can-measure-mass-pulsars-even-if-they-are-all-alone/ (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, 1973. Propriety of the City Edges Grant Awarded to the Suburban Action Institute (No. B-158811). 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

Puhr, R.A., 2013. Evolution of the Sparse inflorescence1 lineage in grasses (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

Belson, K., 2017. N.F.L. Looks For Daylight Through Anthem Flap. New York Times B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bass, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bass, 2007; Hightower and Pierce, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hightower and Pierce, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Meyers et al., 2013)

About the journal

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

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