How to format your references using the Experimental Parasitology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Xie, X.S., 2013. Biochemistry. Enzyme kinetics, past and present. Science 342, 1457–1459.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaidos, E.J., Nimmo, F., 2000. Tectonics and water on Europa. Nature 405, 637.

A journal article with 3 authors

McNamara, J.M., Fawcett, T.W., Houston, A.I., 2013. An adaptive response to uncertainty generates positive and negative contrast effects. Science 340, 1084–1086.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brangwynne, C.P., Eckmann, C.R., Courson, D.S., Rybarska, A., Hoege, C., Gharakhani, J., Jülicher, F., Hyman, A.A., 2009. Germline P granules are liquid droplets that localize by controlled dissolution/condensation. Science 324, 1729–1732.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nemethy, L., 2011. Business Exit Planning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Maglaveras, N., Chouvarda, I., Koutkias, V., Brause, R. (Eds.), 2006. Biological and Medical Data Analysis: 7th International Symposium, ISBMDA 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 7-8, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chapuis, G., Djidjev, H., 2015. Shortest-Path Queries in Planar Graphs on GPU-Accelerated Architectures, in: Lirkov, I., Margenov, S.D., Waśniewski, J. (Eds.), Large-Scale Scientific Computing: 10th International Conference, LSSC 2015, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 8-12, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–60.

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 Experimental Parasitology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2017. Time Crystals: How Scientists Created A New State Of Matter [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/time-crystals-how-scientists-created-a-new-state-of-matter/ (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, 2001. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. GAO-01-384R). 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

Krishna, V., 2008. Exploring organizational commitment from an organizational perspective: Organizational learning as a determinant of affective commitment in Indian software firms (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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., Nir, S.M., 2017. The Village Voice, Keeper of Downtown Cool, Will Shed Its Print Edition. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xie, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gaidos and Nimmo, 2000; Xie, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gaidos and Nimmo, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Brangwynne et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Parasitology
Abbreviation	Exp. Parasitol.
ISSN (print)	0014-4894
Scope	Immunology Parasitology General Medicine