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

Pockley, P. (2001) Commission plots transgenic future. Nature 412, 573

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwämmle, V. and Herrmann, H.J. (2003) Geomorphology: solitary wave behaviour of sand dunes. Nature 426, 619–620

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng, B. et al. (2013) Ultrathin nanostructured metals for highly transmissive plasmonic subtractive color filters. Sci. Rep. 3, 2840

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Gibeaux, R. et al. (2018) Paternal chromosome loss and metabolic crisis contribute to hybrid inviability in Xenopus. Nature 553, 337–341

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, P. et al. (2003) Sieben und Siebmaschinen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Yi, C.-C., ed. (2013) The Psychological Well-being of East Asian Youth, 2, Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Dürholz, U. et al. (2011) A Formal Approach to Distance-Bounding RFID Protocols. In Information Security: 14th International Conference, ISC 2011, Xi’an, China, October 26-29, 2011. Proceedings (Lai, X. et al., eds), pp. 47–62, 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) Genetically Engineered Athletes Could Be Heading This Way Soon. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/genetically-engineered-athletes-could-be-heading-way-soon/. [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 (1991) NASA Personnel: Shortages of Scientists and Engineers Due to Retirements Unlikely in the 1990s, 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

Pitron, J.E. (2008) The influence of exemplary followership on organizational performance: A phenomenological approach. 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

Protess, B. and Davis, J.H. (2017) Trump Vows Cuts in Wall St. Rules From Obama EraNew York Times, A1

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

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