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

Weinberger, A.J., 2002. Planetary disks. A dusty business. Science 295, 2027–2028.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shelke, S.A., Piccirilli, J.A., 2014. Origins of life: RNA made in its own mirror image. Nature 515, 347–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ravishankara, A.R., Daniel, J.S., Portmann, R.W., 2009. Nitrous oxide (N2O): the dominant ozone-depleting substance emitted in the 21st century. Science 326, 123–125.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kendirlik, E.M., Sirt, S., Kalkan, S.B., Dietsche, W., Wegscheider, W., Ludwig, S., Siddiki, A., 2013. Anomalous resistance overshoot in the integer quantum Hall effect. Sci. Rep. 3, 3133.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coles, A., Hawkins, D.G., 2011. MIDAS Technical Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rook, G.A.W. (Ed.), 2009. The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine, Progress in Inflammation Research. Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Russell, R., Tokatlian, J.G., 2016. Argentina and the Rise of Brazil: Perceptions and Strategic Options, in: Gardini, G.L., Almeida, M.H.T. de (Eds.), Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil: Balancing Power in Emerging States. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 62–76.

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. Can Marijuana Treat Opioid Addiction? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/main-pushes-add-painkiller-addiction-list-conditions-treatable-medical-marijuana/ (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, 1981. Government-Wide Guidelines and Management Assistance Center Needed To Improve ADP Systems Development (No. AFMD-81-20). 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

Kim, S.B., 2010. Model uncertainty and model averaging in the estimation of benchmark dose (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kang, C., de la MERCED, M.J., 2017. AT&T’s Blockbuster Bid For Time Warner Is in Limbo. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinberger, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Shelke and Piccirilli, 2014; Weinberger, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Shelke and Piccirilli, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kendirlik et al., 2013)

About the journal

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