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

Banwart, S., 2011. Save our soils. Nature 474, 151–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hwang, J., Druffel, E.R.M., 2003. Lipid-like material as the source of the uncharacterized organic carbon in the ocean? Science 299, 881–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bredesen, D.E., Rao, R.V., Mehlen, P., 2006. Cell death in the nervous system. Nature 443, 796–802.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Recker, M., Nee, S., Bull, P.C., Kinyanjui, S., Marsh, K., Newbold, C., Gupta, S., 2004. Transient cross-reactive immune responses can orchestrate antigenic variation in malaria. Nature 429, 555–558.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll, C., Antti Pirnes, Withers LLP, 2009. From Innovation to Cash Flows. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Martinoli, A., Mondada, F., Correll, N., Mermoud, G., Egerstedt, M., Hsieh, M.A., Parker, L.E., Støy, K. (Eds.), 2013. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 10th International Symposium, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Padmanabhan, J., Keshavan, M.S., 2014. Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia, in: Janicak, P.G., Marder, S.R., Tandon, R., Goldman, M. (Eds.), Schizophrenia: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 35–57.

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

Andrew, E., 2013. Mushrooms Capable of Generating Wind to Distribute Spores [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mushrooms-capable-generating-wind-distribute-spores/ (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, 2006. LOCAL Television Act: Status of Spending for Fiscal Year 2005 (No. GAO-06-858R). 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

Wheeler, T.J., 2009. Efficient construction of accurate multiple alignments and large-scale phylogenies (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Grady, D., 2012. When Illness Makes a Spouse a Stranger. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Banwart, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Banwart, 2011; Hwang and Druffel, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hwang and Druffel, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Recker et al., 2004)

About the journal

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