How to format your references using the International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Caplan, A., 2004. Bioethics. Is biomedical research too dangerous to pursue? Science 303, 1142.
A journal article with 2 authors
Gick, B., Derrick, D., 2009. Aero-tactile integration in speech perception. Nature 462, 502–504.
A journal article with 3 authors
Prosser, B.L., Ward, C.W., Lederer, W.J., 2011. X-ROS signaling: rapid mechano-chemo transduction in heart. Science 333, 1440–1445.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Oldham, M.L., Khare, D., Quiocho, F.A., Davidson, A.L., Chen, J., 2007. Crystal structure of a catalytic intermediate of the maltose transporter. Nature 450, 515–521.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Tewari, A., 2011. Advanced Control of Aircraft, Spacecraft and Rockets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Kantor, P., Muresan, G., Roberts, F., Zeng, D.D., Wang, F.-Y., Chen, H., Merkle, R.C. (Eds.), 2005. Intelligence and Security Informatics: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 19-20, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Trentz, O., 2014. Polytrauma: Pathophysiology, Priorities, and Management, in: Oestern, H.-J., Trentz, O., Uranues, S. (Eds.), General Trauma Care and Related Aspects: Trauma Surgery II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 69–76.

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: Parasites and Wildlife.

Blog post
Luntz, S., 2014. Two Early Galaxies Grew Old Before Their Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-early-galaxies-grew-old-their-time/ (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, 1995. Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-95-21(3)). 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
Nistal França, F.J., 2017. Nondestructive Evaluation of Southern Pine Lumber (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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
Dwyer, K.P., 2005. Still Searching for Equilibrium In the Work-Life Balancing Act. New York Times 101.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caplan, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Caplan, 2004; Gick and Derrick, 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Gick and Derrick, 2009)
  • Three or more authors: (Oldham et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
AbbreviationInt. J. Parasitol. Parasites Wildl.
ISSN (print)2213-2244
ScopeAnimal Science and Zoology
Parasitology
Infectious Diseases

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