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 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

Triplett, B., 2000. Astronomers fume over night light. Nature 405, 987–988.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sussman, M.R., Phillips, G.N., Jr, 2009. Plant science. How plant cells go to sleep for a long, long time. Science 326, 1356–1357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amodeo, G.A., Rudolph, M.J., Tong, L., 2007. Crystal structure of the heterotrimer core of Saccharomyces cerevisiae AMPK homologue SNF1. Nature 449, 492–495.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Beer, C., Reichstein, M., Tomelleri, E., Ciais, P., Jung, M., Carvalhais, N., Rödenbeck, C., Arain, M.A., Baldocchi, D., Bonan, G.B., Bondeau, A., Cescatti, A., Lasslop, G., Lindroth, A., Lomas, M., Luyssaert, S., Margolis, H., Oleson, K.W., Roupsard, O., Veenendaal, E., Viovy, N., Williams, C., Woodward, F.I., Papale, D., 2010. Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: global distribution and covariation with climate. Science 329, 834–838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kapterev, A., 2011. Presentation Secrets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Shockley, E., Neal, T.M.S., PytlikZillig, L.M., Bornstein, B.H. (Eds.), 2016. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Trust: Towards Theoretical and Methodological Integration, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, D., 2016. Resilience of Spatial Networks, in: Lü, J., Yu, X., Chen, G., Yu, W. (Eds.), Complex Systems and Networks: Dynamics, Controls and Applications, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 79–106.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Young Human Blood Rejuvenates Old Mice [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, 1999. Airline Deregulation: Changes in Airfares, Service Quality, and Barriers to Entry (No. RCED-99-92). 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

Basik, N., 2008. An evolutionary approach to intuitionism and moral realism (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Dominus, I. by S., 2014. ‘You Have to Keep Putting Yourself Out There.’ New York Times MM14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triplett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Sussman and Phillips, 2009; Triplett, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Sussman and Phillips, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Beer et al., 2010)

About the journal

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