How to format your references using the Parasitology citation style

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

Szyszka, P. (2014). Ecology. Follow the odor. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344, 1454.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lysenko, V. and Varduny, T. (2013). Anthocyanin-dependent anoxygenic photosynthesis in coloured flower petals? Scientific reports 3, 3373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiesecker, J. M., Blaustein, A. R. and Belden, L. K. (2001). Complex causes of amphibian population declines. Nature 410, 681–684.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Matsumoto, A., Comatas, K. E., Liu, L. and Stamler, J. S. (2003). Screening for nitric oxide-dependent protein-protein interactions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, 657–661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aït-Kadi, D., Chouinard, M., Marcotte, S. and Riopel, D. (2012). Sustainable Reverse Logistics Network. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bharitkar, S. and Kyriakakis, C. eds. (2006). Immersive Audio Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Sitarz, A. (2015). Conformally Rescaled Noncommutative Geometries. In Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXIII Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 29 – July 5, 2014 (ed. Kielanowski, P., Bieliavsky, P., Odzijewicz, A., Schlichenmaier, M., and Voronov, T.), pp. 83–100. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Parasitology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). In a Water-Scarce West of the Future, Who Will be Hit Hardest? 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 (1992). Natural Gas: Factors Affecting Approval Times for Construction of Natural Gas Pipelines, RCED-92-100. 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

Pena, H. (2017). Long-Term Effects of Post-Fire Forest Structure on Understory Vegetation in Larch Forests of the Siberian Arctic.

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

Gordon, M. R. (2017). A Freed but Scarred City Tests Trump. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szyszka, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lysenko and Varduny, 2013; Szyszka, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lysenko and Varduny, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Matsumoto et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Parasitology
Abbreviation	Parasitology
ISSN (print)	0031-1820
ISSN (online)	1469-8161
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Parasitology Infectious Diseases