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

Szpiro, G., 2013. Economics: Value judgements. Nature 500, 521–523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Skourtis, S.S., Beratan, D.N., 2007. Biochemistry. Photosynthesis from the protein’s perspective. Science 316, 703–704.

A journal article with 3 authors

Houchmandzadeh, B., Wieschaus, E., Leibler, S., 2002. Establishment of developmental precision and proportions in the early Drosophila embryo. Nature 415, 798–802.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Purahong, W., Schloter, M., Pecyna, M.J., Kapturska, D., Däumlich, V., Mital, S., Buscot, F., Hofrichter, M., Gutknecht, J.L.M., Krüger, D., 2014. Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe. Sci. Rep. 4, 7014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jarry, P., Beneat, J.N., 2016. Microwave Amplifier and Active Circuit Design Using the Real Frequency Technique. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Drossopoulou, S. (Ed.), 2008. Programming Languages and Systems: 17th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29-April 6, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tecilazich, F., Dinh, T.L., Veves, A., 2012. Diabetic Neuropathy, in: Shrikhande, G.V., McKinsey, J.F. (Eds.), Diabetes and Peripheral Vascular Disease: Diagnosis and Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 39–51.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Honeybee Brain Flies A Drone [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/workings-honeybee-brains-inspire-drones/ (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, 2007. Federal Aviation Administration: Viability of Current Funding Structure for Aviation Activities and Observations on Funding Provisions of Reauthorization Proposals (No. GAO-07-1104T). 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

Guedez, A., 2017. Developing Correlations for Velocity Models in Vertical Transverse Isotropic Media: Bakken Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. Lions in Winter Who Can Still Roar. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szpiro, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Skourtis and Beratan, 2007; Szpiro, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Skourtis and Beratan, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Purahong et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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