How to format your references using the Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Jorgensen, R.A., 2011. Plant science. A window on the sophistication of plants. Science 333, 1103–1104.

A journal article with 2 authors

Macquaker, J.H.S., Bohacs, K.M., 2007. Geology. On the accumulation of mud. Science 318, 1734–1735.

A journal article with 3 authors

Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., Lidz, A., Hernquist, L., 2008. Numerical simulations unravel the cosmic web. Science 319, 52–55.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Alter, G., Heckerman, D., Schneidewind, A., Fadda, L., Kadie, C.M., Carlson, J.M., Oniangue-Ndza, C., Martin, M., Li, B., Khakoo, S.I., Carrington, M., Allen, T.M., Altfeld, M., 2011. HIV-1 adaptation to NK-cell-mediated immune pressure. Nature 476, 96–100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maidl, B., Herrenknecht, M., Maidl, U., Wehrmeyer, G., 2012. Mechanised Shield Tunnelling. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Kaastra, J. (Ed.), 2008. Clusters of Galaxies: Beyond the Thermal View. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

López-Lambas, M.E., 2010. Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Areas, in: Rauch, S., Morrison, G.M., Monzón, A. (Eds.), Highway and Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium, Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 39–47.

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: Regional Studies and Reports.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Lone Porcupine Skillfully Defends Himself Against 17 Hungry Lions [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1978. Office of Telecommunications Policy’s Contract for a Publication on Intercepting Electronic Communications (No. LCD-78-110). 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

Aiken, J., 2009. Virtually a leader: Mitigating process losses through shared team states (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2011. Audit Finds Errors in Calculating Pensions in Bankruptcies. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jorgensen, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jorgensen, 2011; Macquaker and Bohacs, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Macquaker and Bohacs, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Alter et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports
Abbreviation	Vet. Parasitol. (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	2405-9390
Scope	Parasitology General Veterinary