How to format your references using the International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kitayama, K., 2005. Comment on “Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences.” Science 308, 633; author reply 633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hitz, M.-P., Andelfinger, G., 2015. Cardiology: Race for healthy hearts. Nature 520, 160–161.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dean, R., Bonsall, M.B., Pizzari, T., 2007. Evolution. Aging and sexual conflict. Science 316, 383–384.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Calderón, M. del C., Rey, M.-D., Cabrera, A., Prieto, P., 2014. The subtelomeric region is important for chromosome recognition and pairing during meiosis. Sci. Rep. 4, 6488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Upreti, S.R., 2017. Process Modeling and Simulation for Chemical Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Vassilopoulos, A.P., 2011. Fatigue of Fiber-reinforced Composites, Engineering Materials and Processes. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Hughes, M., Herrick, A.L., 2014. Nailfold Capillaroscopy, in: Mayes, M.D. (Ed.), A Visual Guide to Scleroderma and Approach to Treatment. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 37–49.

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 International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Nearly 78 Percent Of All Childhood Diarrhea Infections Caused By Just Six Pathogens [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nearly-78-percent-of-all-childhood-diarrhea-infections-caused-by-just-six-pathogens/ (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, 2016. FACE Recognition Technology: FBI Should Better Ensure Privacy and Accuracy [Reissued on August 3, 2016] (No. GAO-16-267). 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

Jozwiak, A.L., 2012. Social work internship stipend program: A grant proposal (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

Hanel, M., 2013. The Octopus War. New York Times MM50.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kitayama, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hitz and Andelfinger, 2015; Kitayama, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Hitz and Andelfinger, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Calderón et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Abbreviation	Int. J. Parasitol. Parasites Wildl.
ISSN (print)	2213-2244
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Parasitology Infectious Diseases