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

Manoharan, V.N., 2015. COLLOIDS. Colloidal matter: Packing, geometry, and entropy. Science 349, 1253751.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanson, R., Awschalom, D.D., 2008. Coherent manipulation of single spins in semiconductors. Nature 453, 1043–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jensen, K., Call, J., Tomasello, M., 2007. Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game. Science 318, 107–109.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Santer, B.D., Po-Chedley, S., Zelinka, M.D., Cvijanovic, I., Bonfils, C., Durack, P.J., Fu, Q., Kiehl, J., Mears, C., Painter, J., Pallotta, G., Solomon, S., Wentz, F.J., Zou, C.-Z., 2018. Human influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature. Science 361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernström, S., 2014. Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Duguid, F., 2013. Volunteer Work, Informal Learning and Social Action, The Knowledge Economy and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhansali, A., Gogate, Y., 2015. Cushing’s Syndrome: Clinical Perspectives, in: Gogate, Y. (Ed.), Clinical Rounds in Endocrinology: Volume I - Adult Endocrinology. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 67–94.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. The Truth About The Mysterious “Pyramid” Discovered In Antarctica [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-truth-about-the-mysterious-pyramid-discovered-in-antarctica/ (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, 2012. Telecommunications: Exposure and Testing Requirements for Mobile Phones Should Be Reassessed (No. GAO-12-771). 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

Dotson, K.T., 2009. Smoke points of microgravity and normal gravity coflow diffusion flames (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

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 (Manoharan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hanson and Awschalom, 2008; Manoharan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hanson and Awschalom, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Santer et al., 2018)

About the journal

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