How to format your references using the Malaria Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Malaria Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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

1. Polak T. Help others--and help your career. Science. 2015;350:246.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dragoi G, Tonegawa S. Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies. Nature. 2011;469:397–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bauer P, Thorpe A, Brunet G. The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction. Nature. 2015;525:47–55.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Feinberg H, Mitchell DA, Drickamer K, Weis WI. Structural basis for selective recognition of oligosaccharides by DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR. Science. 2001;294:2163–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stidwill D, Fletcher R. Normal Binocular Vision. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Faure G. The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water. Mensing TM, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Vasco DW. Trajectory-Based Methods for Modeling and Characterization. In: Cai X, Yeh T-CJ, editors. Quantitative Information Fusion for Hydrological Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 69–103.

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 Malaria Journal.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Philae Lander Is Missing. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jun. Report No.: GAO-14-671T.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Slayton KA. A psychoeducational support group for families of youth experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

1. Kelly M. Perot Tells It His Way - Take It Or Leave It. New York Times. 1992 Jun 7;43.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Malaria Journal
Abbreviation	Malar. J.
ISSN (online)	1475-2875
Scope	Parasitology Infectious Diseases