How to format your references using the Experimental Parasitology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental Parasitology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Chang, F.R., 2009. Computer science. Is your computer secure? Science 325, 550–551.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaasik, K., Lee, C.C., 2004. Reciprocal regulation of haem biosynthesis and the circadian clock in mammals. Nature 430, 467–471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkenburger, B.H., Barstow, K.L., Mintz, I.M., 2001. Dendrodendritic inhibition through reversal of dopamine transport. Science 293, 2465–2470.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Niessen, F., Schaffner, F., Furlan-Freguia, C., Pawlinski, R., Bhattacharjee, G., Chun, J., Derian, C.K., Andrade-Gordon, P., Rosen, H., Ruf, W., 2008. Dendritic cell PAR1-S1P3 signalling couples coagulation and inflammation. Nature 452, 654–658.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., Liew, T.H., Yeap, B.L., 2005. Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sankai, Y., Suzuki, K., Hasegawa, Y. (Eds.), 2014. Cybernics: Fusion of human, machine and information systems. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Gómez, A., Lunt, D.H., 2007. Refugia within Refugia: Patterns of Phylogeographic Concordance in the Iberian Peninsula, in: Weiss, S., Ferrand, N. (Eds.), Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins and Conservation of European Biodiversity. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 155–188.

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 Parasitology.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. We Have Almost Certainly Blown The 1.5-Degree Global Warming Target [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1994. Hispanics’ Schooling: Risk Factors for Dropping Out and Barriers to Resuming Their Education (No. PEMD-94-24). 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

Savage, F., 2014. Effect of Dry-Wet Cycles on Fracture Propagation in Shale and Gas Production Mechanism (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. A Plea for Robot Rights. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chang, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chang, 2009; Kaasik and Lee, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kaasik and Lee, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Niessen et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Parasitology
Abbreviation	Exp. Parasitol.
ISSN (print)	0014-4894
Scope	Immunology Parasitology General Medicine