How to format your references using the The Journal of Parasitology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of 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	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

Harshaw, C. 2015. ANIMAL COGNITION. Comment on “Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans’ mental number line.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348: 1438.

A journal article with 2 authors

Russo, T., and Volterra, V. 2005. Comment on “children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 56; author reply 56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brohawn, S. G. et al. 2012. Crystal structure of the human K2P TRAAK, a lipid- and mechano-sensitive K+ ion channel. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 436–441.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Sun, C. et al. 2014. In situ study of defect migration kinetics in nanoporous Ag with enhanced radiation tolerance. Scientific reports 4: 3737.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szczecinski, L., and Alvarado, A. 2014. Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Aggarwal, C. C. (Ed.). 2013. Managing and Mining Sensor Data. Springer US, Boston, MA, XIV, 534 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

van Helvoort, A. A. J. 2014. The Personal Knowledge Base Conception of Information Literacy. In Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century: Second European Conference, ECIL 2014, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 20-23, 2014. Proceedings. S. Kurbanoğlu et al. (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham. p 31–36.

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 The Journal of Parasitology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Scientists Identify Brain Expanding Gene In Humans. IFLScience.

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. Comments on Authority of Office of Education for Access to Accreditation-Related Records. 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

Rivera, C. 2017. The Role of Privacy, Brand Labeling, and Cost on Condom Procurement: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Assess a University Policy. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Dudziak, M. L. 2013. Obama’s Nixonian Precedent. New York Times: A29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harshaw, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Russo and Volterra, 2005; Harshaw, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Russo and Volterra, 2005)
Three authors: (Brohawn, del Mármol, and MacKinnon, 2012)
11 or more authors: (Sun, Bufford, Chen, Kirk, Wang, Li, Wang, Maloy, and Zhang, 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Parasitology
Abbreviation	J. Parasitol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3395
ISSN (online)	1937-2345
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Parasitology