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

Campbell, G. (2002) Distalization of the Drosophila leg by graded EGF-receptor activity. Nature 418, 781–785

A journal article with 2 authors

Kissa, K. and Herbomel, P. (2010) Blood stem cells emerge from aortic endothelium by a novel type of cell transition. Nature 464, 112–115

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, M. et al. (2013) Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition. Nature 501, 395–398

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Nath, U. et al. (2003) Genetic control of surface curvature. Science 299, 1404–1407

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dacey, J.S. et al. (2016) Your Child’s Social and Emotional Well-Being, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Nielsen, M. et al., eds. (2009) SOFSEM 2009: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, January 24-30, 2009. Proceedings, 5404, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Fomin, F.V. and Kratsch, D. (2010) Treewidth. In Exact Exponential Algorithms (Kratsch, D., ed), pp. 77–100, 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 Trends in Parasitology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) From Beer As Preventative To Modern-Day Bacteria, Food Safety Is Still On The Agenda. 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 (1997) Surface Transportation: Regional Distribution of Federal Highway Funds, 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

Kane, B.H. (2017) A Qualitative Exploratory Inquiry of Communicating in a Multigenerational Traditional-Rational Organization. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Feeney, K. (2012) Coming for ‘Cake Boss’ And Finding MoreNew York Times, NJ9

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