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

Wigley TML (2006) A combined mitigation/geoengineering approach to climate stabilization. Science 314:452–454

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulsen M, Boomsma JJ (2005) Mutualistic fungi control crop diversity in fungus-growing ants. Science 307:741–744

A journal article with 3 authors

Wood MJ, Storz G, Tjandra N (2004) Structural basis for redox regulation of Yap1 transcription factor localization. Nature 430:917–921

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Amelung F, Yun S-H, Walter TR, et al (2007) Stress control of deep rift intrusion at Mauna Loa volcano, Hawaii. Science 316:1026–1030

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossner W, Graubner C-A (2012) Spannbetonbauwerke. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Sakio H, Tamura T (eds) (2008) Ecology of Riparian Forests in Japan: Disturbance, Life History, and Regeneration. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Braun T, Gotzhein R, Wiebel M (2011) Integration of FlexRay into the SDL-Model-Driven Development Approach. In: Kraemer FA, Herrmann P (eds) System Analysis and Modeling: About Models: 6th International Workshop, SAM 2010, Oslo, Norway, October 4-5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–71

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 Experimental and Applied Acarology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Signs Of Life From 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Hot Springs Could Change Mars Mission Target. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/signs-of-life-from-35billionyearold-hot-springs-could-change-mars-mission-target/. 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 (1991) Social Security: Telephone Access to Local Field Offices. 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

Green SW (2015) The influence of satisfaction among African American males on community college choices. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Goldstein J, Schweber N (2014) Chokehold Complaints Are Focus of City Study. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wigley 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Poulsen and Boomsma 2005; Wigley 2006).

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

Two authors: (Poulsen and Boomsma 2005)
Three or more authors: (Amelung et al. 2007)

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