How to format your references using the Journal of Parasitic Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 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

de Lange C (2013) Diagnosis: Waiting for results. Nature 502:S10-2

A journal article with 2 authors

Veigel C, Schmidt CF (2009) Biochemistry. Friction in motor proteins. Science 325:826–827

A journal article with 3 authors

Fournier AE, GrandPre T, Strittmatter SM (2001) Identification of a receptor mediating Nogo-66 inhibition of axonal regeneration. Nature 409:341–346

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Helmuth B, Harley CDG, Halpin PM, et al (2002) Climate change and latitudinal patterns of intertidal thermal stress. Science 298:1015–1017

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Subramanian MN (2017) Polymer Blends and Composites. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Natarajan S (2014) Boosted Statistical Relational Learners: From Benchmarks to Data-Driven Medicine. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Esposito F, d’Amato C (2007) An Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Improving Symbolic Object Retrieval. In: Brito P, Cucumel G, Bertrand P, Carvalho F de (eds) Selected Contributions in Data Analysis and Classification. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–53

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 Journal of Parasitic Diseases.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Amish House Dust Found To Protect Kids Against Asthma. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/amish-house-dust-found-to-protect-kids-against-asthma/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2007) Public Transportation: Future Demand Is Likely for New Starts and Small Starts Programs, but Improvements Needed to the Small Starts Application Process. 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

Washburn SJ (2006) The Epiphytic Macrolichens of the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, Metropolitan Area. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Brantley B (2017) Yelling About Sex. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Lange 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Veigel and Schmidt 2009; de Lange 2013).

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

Two authors: (Veigel and Schmidt 2009)
Three or more authors: (Helmuth et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Parasitic Diseases
Abbreviation	J. Parasit. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0971-7196
ISSN (online)	0975-0703
Scope	Parasitology