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

Bloxham, J., 2000. Sensitivity of the geomagnetic axial dipole to thermal core-mantle interactions. Nature 405, 63–65.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevenson, I.R., Bryant, D.M., 2000. Climate change and constraints on breeding. Nature 406, 366–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendoza, M., Succi, S., Herrmann, H.J., 2013. Flow through randomly curved manifolds. Sci. Rep. 3, 3106.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garb, J.E., Dimauro, T., Vo, V., Hayashi, C.Y., 2006. Silk genes support the single origin of orb webs. Science 312, 1762.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Häussler-Combe, U., 2014. Computational Methods for Reinforced Concrete Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Barnaghi, P., Moessner, K., Presser, M., Meissner, S. (Eds.), 2009. Smart Sensing and Context: 4th European Conference, EuroSSC 2009, Guildford, UK, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Demarcy, T., Vandersteen, C., Raffaelli, C., Gnansia, D., Guevara, N., Ayache, N., Delingette, H., 2016. Uncertainty Quantification of Cochlear Implant Insertion from CT Images, in: Shekhar, R., Wesarg, S., González Ballester, M.Á., Drechsler, K., Sato, Y., Erdt, M., Linguraru, M.G., Oyarzun Laura, C. (Eds.), Clinical Image-Based Procedures. Translational Research in Medical Imaging: 5th International Workshop, CLIP 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 17, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 27–35.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Researchers Find Psychological “Vaccine” Against Fake News [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1992. Mass Transit Grants: Risk of Misspent and Ineffectively Used Funds in FTA’s Chicago Region (No. RCED-92-53). 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

Beyer, P.D., 2010. Authentic Leadership in-extremis: A study of combat leadership (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

Walsh, M.W., 2015. Puerto Rico Misses First Debt Payment. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bloxham, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bloxham, 2000; Stevenson and Bryant, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Stevenson and Bryant, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Garb et al., 2006)

About the journal

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