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

Poeppelmeier, K., 2002. Solid state chemistry. A mixed oxide-hydride perovskite. Science 295, 1849.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eiben, A.E., Smith, J., 2015. From evolutionary computation to the evolution of things. Nature 521, 476–482.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank, F., Sonenberg, N., Nagar, B., 2010. Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature 465, 818–822.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Martin, S.J., Beekman, M., Wossler, T.C., Ratnieks, F.L.W., 2002. Parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade policing. Nature 415, 163–165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacobsson, M., Niemegeers, I., Heemstra de Groot, S., 2010. Personal Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Baptista, R., Leitão, J. (Eds.), 2015. Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development: Labor Networks, Knowledge Flows, and Industry Growth, International Studies in Entrepreneurship. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Gordon, M., Guo, S., Hogan, H.B., 2016. Abuse: Elder Abuse, in: Have, H.T. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 14–21.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Cancer Vaccine Delivered Via Coated Bacteria [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cancer-vaccine-delivered-coated-bacteria/ (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, 2008. District of Columbia Public Schools: While Early Reform Efforts Tackle Critical Management Issues, a District-Wide Strategic Education Plan Would Help Guide Long-Term Efforts (No. GAO-08-549T). 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

Teeter, C.M., 2010. Characterizing the Spatial Density Functions of Neural Arbors (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. Bearing Witness to a Massacre. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Poeppelmeier, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Eiben and Smith, 2015; Poeppelmeier, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Eiben and Smith, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Martin et al., 2002)

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