How to format your references using the Parasitology Research citation style

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

Cleary AS (2015) Teamwork: The tumor cell edition. Science 350:1174–1175

A journal article with 2 authors

Pucadyil TJ, Schmid SL (2009) Conserved functions of membrane active GTPases in coated vesicle formation. Science 325:1217–1220

A journal article with 3 authors

Lyon BE, Chaine AS, Winkler DW (2008) Ecology. A matter of timing. Science 321:1051–1052

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rayapureddi JP, Kattamuri C, Steinmetz BD, et al (2003) Eyes absent represents a class of protein tyrosine phosphatases. Nature 426:295–298

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sears RW, Chard KM (2016) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Leal Filho W, Zint M (eds) (2016) The Contribution of Social Sciences to Sustainable Development at Universities, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Jacobson MJ, Kim B, Miao C, et al (2010) Design Perspectives for Learning in Virtual Worlds. In: Jacobson MJ, Reimann P (eds) Designs for Learning Environments of the Future: International Perspectives from the Learning Sciences. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 111–141

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 Research.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Scientists See How The Seven Sisters Spin. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1997) National Airspace System: Observations on the Wide Area Augmentation System. 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

Edson C (2017) A Mixed-Methods Investigation on Contributing Factors to the Political Efficacy of Eighth Grade Students in a Suburban School District in Missouri. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Walsh MW (2012) Suffolk Cites Emergency In Finances. New York Times A24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cleary 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pucadyil and Schmid 2009; Cleary 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pucadyil and Schmid 2009)
Three or more authors: (Rayapureddi et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Parasitology Research
Abbreviation	Parasitol. Res.
ISSN (print)	0932-0113
ISSN (online)	1432-1955
Scope	Insect Science Parasitology General Medicine Infectious Diseases General Veterinary