How to format your references using the Parasite citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Parasite. 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

Bromm V. 2008. Astronomy. The cosmic Rosetta stone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321, 647–648.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kormendy J, Bender R. 2011. Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter haloes of galaxies. Nature, 469, 377–380.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu WW, Mazor O, Wilson RI. 2015. Thermosensory processing in the Drosophila brain. Nature, 519, 353–357.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang H, Keum JK, Hiltner A, Baer E, Freeman B, Rozanski A, Galeski A. 2009. Confined crystallization of polyethylene oxide in nanolayer assemblies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323, 757–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Segura J, Hawkins CF. 2005. CMOS Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mamon RS, Elliott RJ, Eds. 2007. Hidden Markov Models in Finance. Springer US: Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Beste DJV, McFadden J. 2013. Metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in Systems Biology of Tuberculosis, McFadden J, Beste DJV, Kierzek AM, Editors. Springer: New York, NY. p. 55–78.

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 Parasite.

Blog post

Fang J. 2015. Pigeons Wearing Eye Patches Must Learn New Routes Home. IFLScience.

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. 2005. International Air Passengers: Staffing Model for Airport Inspections Personnel Can Be Improved. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edwards CD. 2010. Migration: Lighting to evoke human responses, 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

Greenhouse L. 2016. The Supreme Court’s Silent Failure. New York Times, SR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Parasite
ISSN (print)	1252-607X
ISSN (online)	1776-1042
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