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

Cole-Hamilton, D. J. (2010). Chemistry. Janus catalysts direct nanoparticle reactivity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5961), 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Contreras, J. L., & Reichman, J. H. (2015). DATA ACCESS. Sharing by design: Data and decentralized commons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6266), 1312–1314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, Y., Tyson, G. W., & DeLong, E. F. (2009). Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean’s water column. Nature, 459(7244), 266–269.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, X., Ren, Y., Liu, A., Jin, R., Jiang, Q., Huang, Y., et al. (2014). WP1066 sensitizes oral squamous cell carcinoma cells to cisplatin by targeting STAT3/miR-21 axis. Scientific reports, 4, 7461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molimard, J. (2016). Experimental Mechanics of Solids and Structures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ortmeier, F., & Rauzy, A. (Eds.). (2014). Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 4th International Symposium, IMBSA 2014, Munich, Germany, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8822). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh, H., Pongubala, J. M. R., & Medina, K. L. (2007). Gene Regulatory Networks that Orchestrate the Development of B Lymphocyte Precursors. In S. Gupta, F. Alt, M. Cooper, F. Melchers, & K. Rajewsky (Eds.), Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation XI: B Cell Biology (pp. 57–62). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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, D. (2017, May 23). Time Travel: A Conversation Between A Scientist And A Literature Professor. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/time-travel-a-conversation-between-a-scientist-and-a-literature-professor/. 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. (1954). Study of United States Government Wind Tunnels (No. B-114825). 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

Manzanares, M. E. (2012). Effect of a preoperative multidisciplinary education program on weight management after bariatric surgery (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Weaver, M. A. (2015, April 14). Why Do They Go? New York Times, p. MM42.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cole-Hamilton 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cole-Hamilton 2010; Contreras and Reichman 2015).

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

Two authors: (Contreras and Reichman 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2014)

About the journal

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