How to format your references using the International Journal for Parasitology citation style

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

Emanuel, K., 2008. Retrospective. Edward N. Lorenz (1917-2008). Science 320, 1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burch, C.L., Chao, L., 2000. Evolvability of an RNA virus is determined by its mutational neighbourhood. Nature 406, 625–628.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baum, D.A., Smith, S.D., Donovan, S.S.S., 2005. Evolution. The tree-thinking challenge. Science 310, 979–980.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Patton, G.C., Olsson, C.A., Skirbekk, V., Saffery, R., Wlodek, M.E., Azzopardi, P.S., Stonawski, M., Rasmussen, B., Spry, E., Francis, K., Bhutta, Z.A., Kassebaum, N.J., Mokdad, A.H., Murray, C.J.L., Prentice, A.M., Reavley, N., Sheehan, P., Sweeny, K., Viner, R.M., Sawyer, S.M., 2018. Adolescence and the next generation. Nature 554, 458–466.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakker, J., Clarke, R.J., 2011. Wine Flavour Chemistry. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Degiorgio, V., 2014. Photonics: A Short Course, Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Heiduk, G.S., Zhu, Y., 2009. The Process of Economic Integration in ASEAN + 3: From Free Trade Area to Monetary Cooperation or Vice Versa?, in: Welfens, P.J.J., Ryan, C., Chirathivat, S., Knipping, F. (Eds.), EU - Asean: Facing Economic Globalisation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 73–95.

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 International Journal for Parasitology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. This Swedish City Is Moving Three Kilometers Down The Road [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, 1975. Federal Communications Commission’s Effort To Implement the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (No. 089644). 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

Jones, G., 2009. The impact of song on repeated reading: An examination of comprehension, fluency, and engagement with texts of Hispanic second graders in a Title I urban school (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Johnson, G., 2015. Our Existentially Lucky Numbers. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Emanuel, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Burch and Chao, 2000; Emanuel, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Burch and Chao, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Patton et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Parasitology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Parasitol.
ISSN (print)	0020-7519
Scope	Parasitology Infectious Diseases