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

Warrington, B., 2012. Physics. Two atomic clocks ticking as one. Science 336, 421–422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, K., Mittleman, D.M., 2004. Metal wires for terahertz wave guiding. Nature 432, 376–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lape, R., Colquhoun, D., Sivilotti, L.G., 2008. On the nature of partial agonism in the nicotinic receptor superfamily. Nature 454, 722–727.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun, J., Zhang, X.-P., Li, X.-T., Tang, L., Cui, Y., Zhang, X.-Y., Sun, Y.-S., 2014. Applicable apparent diffusion coefficient of an orthotopic mouse model of gastric cancer by improved clinical MRI diffusion weighted imaging. Sci. Rep. 4, 6072.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heritier, S., Cantoni, E., Copt, S., Victoria-Feser, M.-P., 2009. Robust Methods in Biostatistics: Heritier/Robust Methods in Biostatistics, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Golden, B., Raghavan, S., Wasil, E. (Eds.), 2005. The Next Wave in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies, Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin, C.Y.-Y., Edvinsson, L., Chen, J., Beding, T., 2013. Beyond the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, in: Edvinsson, L., Chen, J., Beding, T. (Eds.), National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea, and South Africa, SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 63–70.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. How To Make A Diamond With Acid [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/new-theory-diamond-formation-acidic-water-proposed/ (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, 2002. Electronic Government: Proposal Addresses Critical Challenges (No. GAO-02-1083T). 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

Guzman, S., 2015. Numerical investigations of a pipe jet with coil insert issuing into a crossflow (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

Billard, M., 2010. Scouting Report. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Warrington, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Wang and Mittleman, 2004; Warrington, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Mittleman, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2014)

About the journal

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