How to format your references using the Parasitology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Dalton, R. (2000). Anger as Princeton closes “inspirational” museum. Nature 407, 825.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolfe, M. S. and Kopan, R. (2004). Intramembrane proteolysis: theme and variations. Science (New York, N.Y.) 305, 1119–1123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saeed, Y., Singh, N. and Schwingenschlögl, U. (2014). Superior thermoelectric response in the 3R phases of hydrated NaxRhO2. Scientific reports 4, 4390.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Keren, K., Pincus, Z., Allen, G. M., Barnhart, E. L., Marriott, G., Mogilner, A. and Theriot, J. A. (2008). Mechanism of shape determination in motile cells. Nature 453, 475–480.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer-Moore, D. and Moore, M. (2012). Destructive Myths in Family Therapy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Elsenbroich, C., Anzola, D. and Gilbert, N. eds. (2016). Social Dimensions of Organised Crime: Modelling the Dynamics of Extortion Rackets. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Colombo, J., Arora, R., DePace, N. L. and Vinik, A. I. (2015). Validation and General Evaluation of Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Monitoring. In Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction: Measurement, Indications, Therapies, and Outcomes (ed. Arora, R., DePace, N. L., and Vinik, A. I.), pp. 55–76. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Parasitology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). Black-Hole-Scope Could Reveal the Mystery of how Cosmic Jets Form. IFLScience.

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). Aviation Security: TSA Has Strengthened Efforts to Plan for the Optimal Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems, but Funding Uncertainties Remain, GAO-06-875T. 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

Farooq, A. S. (2012). Singing the blues: Indicators of mental illness among nursing home elderly.

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

Leland, J. (2016). Worn With Pride. New York Times MB9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton, 2000; Wolfe and Kopan, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Wolfe and Kopan, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Keren et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Parasitology
Abbreviation	Parasitology
ISSN (print)	0031-1820
ISSN (online)	1469-8161
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Parasitology Infectious Diseases