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]

A.J. Ammann, US clinical-research system in need of review, Nature 498 (2013) 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.S. O’Neill, A.B. Reddy, Circadian clocks in human red blood cells, Nature 469 (2011) 498–503.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Kozloski, F. Hamzei-Sichani, R. Yuste, Stereotyped position of local synaptic targets in neocortex, Science 293 (2001) 868–872.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Jin, S.H. Rhim, J. Im, A.J. Freeman, Topological oxide insulator in cubic perovskite structure, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Eylert, The Mobile Multimedia Business, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

A. Winterbottom, F. Tesfaye, eds., Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World: The Modern Period, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Blossfeld, D. Gansert, The Use of Planar Optodes in Root Studies for Quantitative Imaging, in: S. Mancuso (Ed.), Measuring Roots: An Updated Approach, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 83–92.

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]

E. Andrew, What Happens When Molten Aluminum Is Poured Into A Lava Lamp?, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/what-happens-when-melted-aluminum-poured-lava-lamp/ (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, Traffic Congestion: Road Pricing Can Help Reduce Congestion, but Equity Concerns May Grow, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.K. Gnoinska, Poland and the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia, 1949-1965, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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]

M.J. de la MERCED, K. Benner, A Wardrobe by Mail, New York Times (2017) B1.

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