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 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

Stevenson DJ (2001) Mars’ core and magnetism. Nature 412:214–219

A journal article with 2 authors

Nowak MA, Sigmund K (2004) Evolutionary dynamics of biological games. Science 303:793–799

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang J, Pray C, Rozelle S (2002) Enhancing the crops to feed the poor. Nature 418:678–684

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Andersson RL, Ström V, Gedde UW, et al (2014) Micromechanics of ultra-toughened electrospun PMMA/PEO fibres as revealed by in-situ tensile testing in an electron microscope. Sci Rep 4:6335

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaelian KH (2005) Photoacoustic Infrared Spectroscopy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Roth W-M, Radford L (eds) (2011) A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Rosales-López A, Ortiz-Posadas MR (2009) A Distribution Strategy for Imaging Centers in the Costa Rican Public Health System. In: Dössel O, Schlegel WC (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/12 General Subjects. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 12–15

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

Hamilton K (2017) Scientists Transplant Rat Testis To The Neck Of Another Rat. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-transplant-rat-testis-to-the-neck-of-another-rat-/. 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 (2006) Telecommunications: Options for and Barriers to Spectrum Reform. 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

Lamanna CA (2012) The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Galani U, Hay G (2009) Helping Dubai, but Only So Far. 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 (Stevenson 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Stevenson 2001; Nowak and Sigmund 2004).

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

Two authors: (Nowak and Sigmund 2004)
Three or more authors: (Andersson et al. 2014)

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