How to format your references using the Systematic Parasitology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Systematic 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Schapira, M. (2015). STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Chromatin complex, crystal clear. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6258), 278–279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hart, D. M., & Branscomb, L. M. (2000). Research, innovation and politics. Nature, 407(6804), 561–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shema, R., Sacktor, T. C., & Dudai, Y. (2007). Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKM zeta. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5840), 951–953.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hublin, J.-J., Ben-Ncer, A., Bailey, S. E., Freidline, S. E., Neubauer, S., Skinner, M. M., et al. (2018). Author Correction: New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens. Nature, 558(7711), E6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sengupta, D. L., & Liepa, V. V. (2005). Applied Electromagnetics and Electromagnetic Compatibility. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pombo, O., Torres, J. M., Symons, J., & Rahman, S. (Eds.). (2012). Special Sciences and the Unity of Science (Vol. 24). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hertel, D., Leuschner, C., Harteveld, M., & Wiens, M. (2007). Fine root mass, distribution and regeneration in disturbed primary forests and secondary forests of the moist tropics. In T. Tscharntke, C. Leuschner, M. Zeller, E. Guhardja, & A. Bidin (Eds.), Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins: Linking Ecological, Economic and Social Constraints of Land Use and Conservation (pp. 87–106). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Systematic Parasitology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 19). Joy To The World: An Ode To Outer Space At Christmas. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1977). Reorganization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (No. FPCD-77-65). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burke, D. M. (2014). Enhancing the patient safety culture of ABSN students through instruction on medical error recovery (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Mueller, B., & Baker, A. L. (2016, October 7). A Mother Slain on a Playground, a Sea of Witnesses Gone Silent. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schapira 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hart and Branscomb 2000; Schapira 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hart and Branscomb 2000)
Three or more authors: (Hublin et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Systematic Parasitology
Abbreviation	Syst. Parasitol.
ISSN (print)	0165-5752
ISSN (online)	1573-5192
Scope	Parasitology