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

Bozell, J. J. (2010). Chemistry. Connecting biomass and petroleum processing with a chemical bridge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5991), 522–523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouhifd, M. A., & Jephcoat, A. P. (2006). Aluminium control of argon solubility in silicate melts under pressure. Nature, 439(7079), 961–964.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coyte, K. Z., Schluter, J., & Foster, K. R. (2015). The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6261), 663–666.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rao, H., Uhlmann, F., Nasmyth, K., & Varshavsky, A. (2001). Degradation of a cohesin subunit by the N-end rule pathway is essential for chromosome stability. Nature, 410(6831), 955–959.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, M., McKimm, J., & Forrest, K. (2013). How to Assess Doctors and Health Professionals. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Oughton, D. H., & Kashparov, V. (Eds.). (2009). Radioactive Particles in the Environment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Álvarez, I., Condón, S., & Raso, J. (2006). Microbial Inactivation by Pulsed Electric Fields. In J. Raso & V. Heinz (Eds.), Pulsed Electric Fields Technology for the Food Industry: Fundamentals and Applications (pp. 97–129). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 8). Brain Activity Seen In Patient Ten Minutes After Death. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-activity-seen-in-patients-ten-minutes-after-death/. 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. (1995). Managing Technology Change: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States Senate (No. T-AIMD-96-25). 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

O’Grady, C. R. (2009). Journeys of our ancestors: Conservation science approaches to the analysis of cultural material (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Yablonsky, L. (2010, February 14). Power Nap. New York Times, p. ST3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bozell 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bouhifd and Jephcoat 2006; Bozell 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bouhifd and Jephcoat 2006)
Three or more authors: (Rao et al. 2001)

About the journal

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