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. Pirandola S. Quantum discord as a resource for quantum cryptography. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6956.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yartsev MM, Ulanovsky N. Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science. 2013;340:367–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Samokhvalov AV, Shekhter RI, Buzdin AI. Stimulation of a singlet superconductivity in SFS weak links by spin-exchange scattering of cooper pairs. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5671.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lyuksyutova AI, Lu C-C, Milanesio N, King LA, Guo N, Wang Y, et al. Anterior-posterior guidance of commissural axons by Wnt-frizzled signaling. Science. 2003;302:1984–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Aronson DR. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Stone PG, Brough D, editors. Managing, Using, and Interpreting Hadrian’s Wall as World Heritage. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Banerjee A, Sur B. Primitive Channels: Concurrency Control. In: Sur B, editor. SystemC and SystemC-AMS in Practice: SystemC 23, 22 and SystemC-AMS 10. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 13–24.

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. Hale T. North Face Has Created A Coat Made From Biotech Spider Silk. 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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: The District of Columbia Cannot Reliably Track Y2K Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Sep. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-298.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Reilly JM. The role of public opinion in China’s Japan policy: 1997–2007 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2008.

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. Greenhouse L. Justices Stay Execution, A Signal to Lower Courts. New York Times. 2007 Oct 31;A1.

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

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