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

Buckingham, S., 2003. Seeing is believing. Nature 425, 211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maslin, M., Austin, P., 2012. Uncertainty: Climate models at their limit? Nature 486, 183–184.

A journal article with 3 authors

McElwain, J.C., Wagner, P.J., Hesselbo, S.P., 2009. Fossil plant relative abundances indicate sudden loss of Late Triassic biodiversity in East Greenland. Science 324, 1554–1556.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Song, Q., Gu, Z., Liu, S., Xiao, S., 2014. Coherent destruction of tunneling in chaotic microcavities via three-state anti-crossings. Sci. Rep. 4, 4858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Merritt, C., 2015. Process Steam Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vashchenko, V.A., 2010. ESD Design for Analog Circuits. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Du, W., Song, Y., Li, Y., 2011. Multiple Perspective of Public Administration Development Strategy of NGOs, in: Zhou, Q. (Ed.), Advances in Applied Economics, Business and Development: International Symposium, ISAEBD 2011, Dalian, China, August 6-7, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–39.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Moons Of Mars May Have Formed When The Red Planet Was Hit By A Pluto-Sized Object [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, 1992. Intercollegiate Athletics: Compensation Varies for Selected Personnel in Athletic Departments (No. HRD-92-121). 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

Prosky, J., 2012. Meisner and the problem of character (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

Landler, M., Plumer, B., Qiu, L., 2017. A Long List of Economic Burdens, Bolstered by Dubious Data. 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 (Buckingham, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham, 2003; Maslin and Austin, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Maslin and Austin, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2014)

About the journal

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