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

Spurgeon, D., 2000. Immigrants help offset Canada’s brain-drain crisis. Nature 405, 604.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, G.D., Gordon, S., 2001. Immune recognition. A new receptor for beta-glucans. Nature 413, 36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greene, C.H., Monger, B.C., McGarry, L.P., 2009. Ecology. Some like it cold. Science 324, 733–734.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Panikashvili, D., Simeonidou, C., Ben-Shabat, S., Hanus, L., Breuer, A., Mechoulam, R., Shohami, E., 2001. An endogenous cannabinoid (2-AG) is neuroprotective after brain injury. Nature 413, 527–531.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tue, N.V., Reichel, M., Fischer, M., 2016. Berechnung und Bemessung von Betonbrücken. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Meng, W.C.S., Cheung, H.Y.S., Lam, D.T.Y., Ng, S.S.M. (Eds.), 2015. Minimally Invasive Coloproctology: Advances in Techniques and Technology, 1st ed. 2015. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Spaccasassi, C., Koutavas, V., 2014. Towards Efficient Abstractions for Concurrent Consensus, in: McCarthy, J. (Ed.), Trends in Functional Programming: 14th International Symposium, TFP 2013, Provo, UT, USA, May 14-16, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 76–90.

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

Hale, T., 2017. Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat Will Cause 1,200 Premature Deaths, Scientists Say [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/volkswagens-emissions-cheat-will-cause-1200-premature-deaths-scientists-say/ (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, 2017. Highway Bridges: Major Projects Present Challenges for States, but Strategies Exist to Overcome Them (No. GAO-17-707). 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

Alajmi, H., 2012. Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`shá, Bishr ibn Abī Khāzim, and al-Hujayjah (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

Robles, F., Blinder, A., 2015. A Stark Image of a Shooting Carries Impact. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spurgeon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Gordon, 2001; Spurgeon, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Gordon, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Panikashvili et al., 2001)

About the journal

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