How to format your references using the Veterinary Parasitology: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Veterinary Parasitology: X. 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

Brandenberger, R., 2007. Astronomy. A texture in the sky? Science 318, 1560–1561.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldfine, H., Vance, D.E., 2001. Obituary: Konrad E. Bloch (1912-2000). Nature 409, 779.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao, H., Yu, S., Tong, D.Q., 2010. Massive volcanic SO(2) oxidation and sulphate aerosol deposition in Cenozoic North America. Nature 465, 909–912.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, H.-D., Chen, Y.-H., Lin, H.-F., Tao, H.-S., Liu, W.-M., 2014. Antiferromagnetic metal and Mott transition on Shastry-Sutherland lattice. Sci. Rep. 4, 4829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Segura, J., Hawkins, C.F., 2005. CMOS Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lee, H.L., Lee, C.-Y. (Eds.), 2007. Building Supply Chain Excellence in Emerging Economies, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Albano, A., 2014. Upper Bound for the Number of Concepts of Contranominal-Scale Free Contexts, in: Glodeanu, C.V., Kaytoue, M., Sacarea, C. (Eds.), Formal Concept Analysis: 12th International Conference, ICFCA 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 10-13, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 44–53.

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: X.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Paralysed Patient Makes Natural Movements Using Robotics And The Power Of Thought [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, 1989. Aircraft Noise: Eight Airports’ Efforts to Mitigate Noise (No. RCED-89-189). 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

Hendry, M., 2014. The Lonely Nineteenth Century: Loneliness and the Female Protagonist in the Victorian Novel (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. Justices Will Hear Case On Evidence Suppression. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brandenberger, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brandenberger, 2007; Goldfine and Vance, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Goldfine and Vance, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Parasitology: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1389
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