How to format your references using the Parasitology International citation style

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

S. Wain-Hobson, The third Bond, Nature 439 (2006) 539.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Ruxin, A. Habinshuti, Crowd control in Rwanda, Nature 474 (2011) 572–573.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.T. Deller, M. Bailes, S.J. Tingay, Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B, Science 323 (2009) 1327–1329.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.G. Ho, R. Gao, J. Celaje, H.-Y. Chung, M. Selke, Phosphadioxirane: a peroxide from an ortho-substituted arylphosphine and singlet dioxygen, Science 302 (2003) 259–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Stoute, Help, I’m Rich!, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

A.A. Alizadeh, Geosciences of Azerbaijan: Volume I: Geology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Sekimoto, J. Katahira, Y. Yoneda, Nuclear Import and Export Signals, in: V. Citovsky (Ed.), Nuclear Import and Export in Plants and Animals, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005: pp. 50–60.

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 International.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Males Prove Mosquito Weak Link, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/males-prove-mosquito-weak-link/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Competition Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.J. Bodenmiller, A quantitative relational analysis of leadership style and leader-accountability in nonprofit organizations, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2015.

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]

B. Rothenberg, Child Custody Fight May Sideline Azarenka, New York Times (2017) B7.

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	Parasitology International
Abbreviation	Parasitol. Int.
ISSN (print)	1383-5769
Scope	Parasitology Infectious Diseases