How to format your references using the Systematic Parasitology citation style

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

Gill, P. (2000). Optical clocks coming of age. Nature, 407(6804), 579–580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dickson, D., & Abbott, A. (2000). Britain asks to join European Southern Observatory. Nature, 405(6785), 382–383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., & Scheuchl, B. (2011). Ice flow of the Antarctic ice sheet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6048), 1427–1430.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

van Straten, W., Bailes, M., Britton, M., Kulkarni, S. R., Anderson, S. B., Manchester, R. N., & Sarkissian, J. (2001). A test of general relativity from the three-dimensional orbital geometry of a binary pulsar. Nature, 412(6843), 158–160.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens, J. A. (2016). Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shin, J. C., & Kehm, B. M. (Eds.). (2013). Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition (Vol. 6). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Traum, A. Z. (2011). Ion and Fluid Dynamics in Hypertension. In J. T. Flynn, J. R. Ingelfinger, & R. J. Portman (Eds.), Pediatric Hypertension (pp. 65–73). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Systematic Parasitology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, July 18). Inventor Of The World Wide Web Sends Open Letter To “Save The Open Internet In Europe.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1997). Strategic Mobility: Late Deliveries of Large, Medium Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ships (No. NSIAD-97-150). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Stroud, M. (2012). Solar desalination in the southwest United States: A thermoeconomic analysis utilizing the sun to desalt water in high irradiance regions (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Southall, A., & McKINLEY, J. C., Jr. (2017, February 24). ‘I Only Wanted to Scare Them.’ New York Times, p. MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gill 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson and Abbott 2000; Gill 2000).

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

Two authors: (Dickson and Abbott 2000)
Three or more authors: (van Straten et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Systematic Parasitology
Abbreviation	Syst. Parasitol.
ISSN (print)	0165-5752
ISSN (online)	1573-5192
Scope	Parasitology