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

Ransohoff RM (2014) Physiology. Good barriers make good neighbors. Science 346:36–37

A journal article with 2 authors

Jasny BR, Zahn LM (2011) Genome-sequencing anniversary. A celebration of the genome, part I. Science 331:546

A journal article with 3 authors

Shay JW, Reddel RR, Wright WE (2012) Cancer. Cancer and telomeres--an ALTernative to telomerase. Science 336:1388–1390

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Oprea GE, Kröber S, McWhorter ML, et al (2008) Plastin 3 is a protective modifier of autosomal recessive spinal muscular atrophy. Science 320:524–527

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schepers U (2004) RNA Interference in Practice. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Cudd AE, Scholz SJ (eds) (2014) Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

He R, Hu B, Yuan X, Wang L (2014) ℓ 1 Regularized Correntropy. In: Hu B, Yuan X, Wang L (eds) Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–83

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) These Pens Use Ink Made Out Of Recycled Air Pollution. In: IFLScience. 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 (1971) Airport Safety Inspection Program Needed To Improve Flight Safety of Civil Aircraft. 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

Perilla JY (2015) Support group for neonatal intensive care families: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2016) These Avian Marauders Are Less Than Fierce. New York Times C8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ransohoff 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Jasny and Zahn 2011; Ransohoff 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jasny and Zahn 2011)
Three or more authors: (Oprea et al. 2008)

About the journal

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