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

Alan Stern, S. (2003). The evolution of comets in the Oort cloud and Kuiper belt. Nature 424, 639–642.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nisbet, E. and Weiss, R. (2010). Atmospheric science. Top-down versus bottom-up. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328, 1241–1243.

A journal article with 3 authors

Serabyn, E., Mawet, D. and Burruss, R. (2010). An image of an exoplanet separated by two diffraction beamwidths from a star. Nature 464, 1018–1020.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Bourdon, B., Ribe, N. M., Stracke, A., Saal, A. E. and Turner, S. P. (2006). Insights into the dynamics of mantle plumes from uranium-series geochemistry. Nature 444, 713–717.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Denison, E. and Ren, G. Y. (2014). Luke Him Sau Architect. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Natarajan, R. ed. (2014). Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 10th International Conference, ICDCIT 2014, Bhubaneswar, India, February 6-9, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lyubina, J. (2016). Magnetocaloric Materials. In Novel Functional Magnetic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications (ed. Zhukov, A.), pp. 115–186. 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). Discovery Of Massless Weyl Fermion Particle Could Revolutionize Electronics. 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 (1974). Restructured Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School Program in Urban Areas, B-130515. 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

Uzoff, P. P. (2014). Virtual school teacher’s science efficacy beliefs: The effects of community of practice on science-teaching efficacy beliefs.

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

Kelly, D. (2001). The A List. New York Times 713.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alan Stern, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Alan Stern, 2003; Nisbet and Weiss, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nisbet and Weiss, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bourdon et al., 2006)

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