How to format your references using the International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bainbridge, W.S., 2003. Perceptions of science essay. Privacy and property on the Net: research questions. Science 302, 1686–1687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chapman, A., Wyndham, J., 2013. Human rights. A human right to science. Science 340, 1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harley, H.E., Putman, E.A., Roitblat, H.L., 2003. Bottlenose dolphins perceive object features through echolocation. Nature 424, 667–669.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dolling, G., Enkrich, C., Wegener, M., Soukoulis, C.M., Linden, S., 2006. Simultaneous negative phase and group velocity of light in a metamaterial. Science 312, 892–894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Avdeef, A., 2012. Absorption and Drug Development. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Castoria, G., Migliaccio, A. (Eds.), 2012. Advances in Rapid Sex-Steroid Action: New Challenges and New Chances in Breast and Prostate Cancers. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Platen, E., Bruti-Liberati, N., 2010. Stochastic Expansions, in: Bruti-Liberati, N. (Ed.), Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps in Finance, Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 187–231.

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: Drugs and Drug Resistance.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Anxiety can be Inherited from your Parents [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/anxiety-may-be-transferred-parent-child/ (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, 1974. CH-53E Helicopter (No. 093062). 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

Woerner, L.C., 2010. Complicated grief: A case study of pathological bereavement (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Walsh, M.W., 2017. Ex-Insurer Says ‘Perfect Scheme’ Bilks Medicare. 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 (Bainbridge, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bainbridge, 2003; Chapman and Wyndham, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chapman and Wyndham, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dolling et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance
Abbreviation	Int. J. Parasitol. Drugs Drug Resist.
ISSN (print)	2211-3207
Scope	Parasitology Infectious Diseases Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology