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

Chadwick WW Jr. 2006. Earth science. A submarine volcano is caught in the act. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314, 1887–1888.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lipinski C, Hopkins A. 2004. Navigating chemical space for biology and medicine. Nature, 432, 855–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doi T, Behera SK, Yamagata T. 2013. Predictability of the Ningaloo Niño/Niña. Scientific Reports, 3, 2892.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mezzacapo A, Las Heras U, Pedernales JS, DiCarlo L, Solano E, Lamata L. 2014. Digital quantum Rabi and Dicke models in superconducting circuits. Scientific Reports, 4, 7482.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Narayanasamy P. 2005. Postharvest Pathogens and Disease Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Clark DP. 2005. Thyroid Cytopathology. Springer: New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Wayne MA, McCoy AM, Utarnachitt RB. 2016. Emergency Medical Services and Atrial Fibrillation, in Short Stay Management of Atrial Fibrillation, Peacock WF, Clark CL, Editors. Springer International Publishing: Cham. p. 43–49.

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

Andrew E. 2014. New Dual Carbon Battery Charges 20x Faster Than Lithium Ion. 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. 2015. Critical Infrastructure Protection: Sector-Specific Agencies Need to Better Measure Cybersecurity Progress. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Petrovic V. 2017. The K(n)-local E n-Adams Spectral Sequence and a Cohomological Approximation of its E2-term, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana.

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

Gorman J. 2017. The Power of the Bumblebee Brain. New York Times, D6.

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 [2,5,6,8].

About the journal

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