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

Irion, R., 2000. AAS HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION: X-rays Hit the Spot for Astrophysicists. Science 290, 1884–1885.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abanin, D.A., Levitov, L.S., 2007. Quantized Transport in Graphene p-n Junctions in a Magnetic Field. Science 317, 641–643.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyagoshi, T., Kageyama, A., Sato, T., 2010. Zonal flow formation in the Earth’s core. Nature 463, 793–796.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hare, B., Brown, M., Williamson, C., Tomasello, M., 2002. The domestication of social cognition in dogs. Science 298, 1634–1636.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morvillo, N., 2010. Science and Religion. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Chakrabortty, A., Ilić, M.D. (Eds.), 2012. Control and Optimization Methods for Electric Smart Grids, Power Electronics and Power Systems. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Meyer, B., 2015. An Automatic Technique for Static Deadlock Prevention, in: Voronkov, A., Virbitskaite, I. (Eds.), Perspectives of System Informatics: 9th International Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–58.

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

Andrew, D., 2016. What Lies Beneath Antarctica’s Ice? Lakes, Life And The Grandest Of Canyons [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-lies-beneath-antarcticas-ice-lakes-life-and-the-grandest-of-canyons/ (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, 1995. Job Corps Program (No. HEHS-96-61R). 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

Pappenfus, B.J., 2013. How frequency of change within organizations affects burnout of human resource professionals (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2017. Free Rein for Immigration Agents. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Irion, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abanin and Levitov, 2007; Irion, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Abanin and Levitov, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hare et al., 2002)

About the journal

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