How to format your references using the Veterinary Parasitology citation style

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

Egger, A.E., 2012. IBI series winner. Engaging students in earthquakes via real-time data and decisions. Science 336, 1654–1655.

A journal article with 2 authors

Engel, H.-A., Loss, D., 2005. Fermionic bell-state analyzer for spin qubits. Science 309, 586–588.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hao, X., Martin-Rouault, L., Cui, M., 2014. A self-adaptive method for creating high efficiency communication channels through random scattering media. Sci. Rep. 4, 5874.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rao, R., Chen, G., Arava, L.M.R., Kalaga, K., Ishigami, M., Heinz, T.F., Ajayan, P.M., Harutyunyan, A.R., 2013. Graphene as an atomically thin interface for growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. Sci. Rep. 3, 1891.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Kelly, M., Ratitch, B., 2014. Clinical Trials with Missing Data. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Apel, S., 2013. Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines: Concepts and Implementation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Feldmann, P.R., 2013. Considerations About How to Eliminate the Technological Backwardness of Latin America, in: Mukhopadhyay, C., Akhilesh, K.B., Srinivasan, R., Gurtoo, A., Ramachandran, P., Iyer, P.P., Mathirajan, M., Bala Subrahmanya, M.H. (Eds.), Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Emerging Agenda for Technology Management. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 37–47.

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 Veterinary Parasitology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Early Hominin Bone Shows Predation By Hyenas [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/early-hominin-bone-shows-predation-hyenas/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Pseudorabies in Swine and Payment of Indemnity (No. OGC-99-31). 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

Thirumal, V.M., 2017. Production of Microbial Lipids from Lipomyces starkeyi (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

Feeney, K., 2008. Home Is Where The Food Is Grown. New York Times NJ1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Egger, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Egger, 2012; Engel and Loss, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Engel and Loss, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Rao et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Parasitology
Abbreviation	Vet. Parasitol.
ISSN (print)	0304-4017
Scope	Parasitology General Veterinary General Medicine