How to format your references using the Parasitology Research citation style

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

McGloin D (2014) Applied physics: Optical trapping for space mirrors. Nature 506:437–438

A journal article with 2 authors

Fedo CM, Whitehouse MJ (2002) Metasomatic origin of quartz-pyroxene rock, Akilia, Greenland, and implications for Earth’s earliest life. Science 296:1448–1452

A journal article with 3 authors

Branco T, Clark BA, Häusser M (2010) Dendritic discrimination of temporal input sequences in cortical neurons. Science 329:1671–1675

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kabarowski JH, Zhu K, Le LQ, et al (2001) Lysophosphatidylcholine as a ligand for the immunoregulatory receptor G2A. Science 293:702–705

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay J, Tasman A (2006) Essentials of Psychiatry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Saligrama V (ed) (2008) Networked Sensing Information and Control. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Berthold MR (2012) From Patterns to Discoveries. In: Gaber MM (ed) Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–49

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 Parasitology Research.

Blog post

Evans K (2016) The 25 Highest-Paying Jobs In America In 2016. 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 (2016) Highlights of a Forum: Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges. 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

Oh Y (2006) Prediction of Steady State Response in Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Applications in Nano-metrology. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio 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

Billard M (2010) Dress Like a Benefactor. New York Times E5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGloin 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Fedo and Whitehouse 2002; McGloin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Fedo and Whitehouse 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kabarowski et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Parasitology Research
Abbreviation	Parasitol. Res.
ISSN (print)	0932-0113
ISSN (online)	1432-1955
Scope	Insect Science Parasitology General Medicine Infectious Diseases General Veterinary