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

Zubairy MS (2007) Physics. Factoring numbers with waves. Science 316:554–555

A journal article with 2 authors

Draine BT, Ostriker JP (2007) Obituary: Bohdan Paczyński (1940-2007). Nature 447:1065

A journal article with 3 authors

Tripodi M, Stepien AE, Arber S (2011) Motor antagonism exposed by spatial segregation and timing of neurogenesis. Nature 479:61–66

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fang C, Frontiera RR, Tran R, Mathies RA (2009) Mapping GFP structure evolution during proton transfer with femtosecond Raman spectroscopy. Nature 462:200–204

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell D (2008) The JCT Intermediate Building Contracts 2005. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Almeida F, Blesa Aguilera MJ, Blum C, et al (eds) (2006) Hybrid Metaheuristics: Third International Workshop, HM 2006 Gran Canaria, Spain, October 13-14, 2006 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Doria A (2014) Relativistic Electrons-Based THz Sources: Principles of Operation and the ENEA Experience. In: Perenzoni M, Paul DJ (eds) Physics and Applications of Terahertz Radiation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 123–148

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 (2015) Ridiculously Cute New Species Of Lemur Discovered In Madagascar. 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 (2001) Public Assistance: PARIS Project Can Help States Reduce Improper Benefit Payments. 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

Nguyen C (2010) A psychoeducational support group for Vietnamese American family caregivers of stroke survivors: Grant writing thesis 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

Hodara S (2015) A Master of Metallurgy. New York Times WE10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zubairy 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Zubairy 2007; Draine and Ostriker 2007).

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

Two authors: (Draine and Ostriker 2007)
Three or more authors: (Fang et al. 2009)

About the journal

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

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