How to format your references using the Journal of Parasitic Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 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

Chamberlain JS (2012) Genetics. A genetic intervention stands a skip away from clinical tests. Science 338:1431–1432

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenberg SA, Restifo NP (2015) Adoptive cell transfer as personalized immunotherapy for human cancer. Science 348:62–68

A journal article with 3 authors

Rao JN, Madasu Y, Dominguez R (2014) Mechanism of actin filament pointed-end capping by tropomodulin. Science 345:463–467

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kang C, Ye H, Chia J, et al (2013) Functional role of the flexible N-terminal extension of FKBP38 in catalysis. Sci Rep 3:2985

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levene M (2010) An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Secchi D, Neumann M (eds) (2016) Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior: New Frontiers of Social Science Research, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hoffman J (2016) Research Integrity and the Mmogo-method: Some Reflections. In: Roos V (ed) Understanding Relational and Group Experiences through the Mmogo-Method®. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–51

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 Journal of Parasitic Diseases.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Most Of Us Fit Into Four Personality Groups – Which One Are You? In: IFLScience. 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) Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Effort. 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

Wahl RJ (2012) Agustín Barrios and musical identity: Tangos in early twentieth-century guitar repertory. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Crow K (2002) Executive In-Baskets Meant for a Park Picnic. New York Times 145

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chamberlain 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Chamberlain 2012; Rosenberg and Restifo 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rosenberg and Restifo 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Parasitic Diseases
Abbreviation	J. Parasit. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0971-7196
ISSN (online)	0975-0703
Scope	Parasitology