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

Shore B (2002) Obituary: Sir Raymond Firth (1901-2002). Nature 416:384

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulsen H, Nissen P (2012) Structural biology. The inner workings of a dynamic duo. Science 335:416–417

A journal article with 3 authors

Vandermeer J, Perfecto I, Philpott SM (2008) Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem. Nature 451:457–459

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bernstein MP, Dworkin JP, Sandford SA, et al (2002) Racemic amino acids from the ultraviolet photolysis of interstellar ice analogues. Nature 416:401–403

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hines M (2015) Marketing implant dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bartolini N, Nikoletseas S, Sinha P, et al (eds) (2009) Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks: 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2009 and 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, AAA-IDEA 2009, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 23-25, 2009 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Pol LG, Thomas RK (2013) Population Composition. In: Thomas RK (ed) The Demography of Health and Healthcare: Third Edition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 65–89

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

Fang J (2015) Neanderthals Used Eagle Talons to Make Jewelry. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neanderthals-used-eagle-talons-make-jewelry/. 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 (2000) Federal Rulemaking: Agencies’ Use of Information Technology to Facilitate Public Participation. 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

Werbeck K-U (2012) From rubble to revolutions and raves: Literary interrogations of German media ecologies. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Accuses Bush of Dodging Responsibilities. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shore 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Shore 2002; Poulsen and Nissen 2012).

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

Two authors: (Poulsen and Nissen 2012)
Three or more authors: (Bernstein 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