How to format your references using the Trends in Parasitology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in 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

Hla, T. (2005) Immunology. Dietary factors and immunological consequences. Science 309, 1682–1683

A journal article with 2 authors

Houk, K.N. and Cheong, P.H.-Y. (2008) Computational prediction of small-molecule catalysts. Nature 455, 309–313

A journal article with 3 authors

LaRiviere, F.J. et al. (2001) Uniform binding of aminoacyl-tRNAs to elongation factor Tu by thermodynamic compensation. Science 294, 165–168

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Kang-Decker, N. et al. (2001) Lack of acrosome formation in Hrb-deficient mice. Science 294, 1531–1533

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joule, J.A. and Mills, K. (2012) Heterocyclic Chemistry at a Glance, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Pleyer, U. (2009) Uveitis and Immunological Disorders, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Wilczenski, F.L. and Coomey, S.M. (2007) Changing Roles and the Process of Changing. In A Practical Guide to Service Learning: Strategies for Positive Development in Schools (Coomey, S. M., ed), pp. 57–63, 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 Trends in Parasitology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) The Huge “Asteroid” Set To Fly Past Earth Today Is Actually A Dead Comet - And It Looks Just Like A Skull!. IFLScience. [Online]. [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 (1992) Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks, 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

Butler, M.L. (2017) Floating Homelands: Postnational Constructions of Home in Contemporary Africana Women’s Literature. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

(nyt), S.K. (2003) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Church Freezes Ties With EpiscopaliansNew York Times, A6

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Trends in Parasitology
Abbreviation	Trends Parasitol.
ISSN (print)	1471-4922
ISSN (online)	1471-5007
Scope	Parasitology Infectious Diseases