How to format your references using the Acta Histochemica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Histochemica. 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	Download the output style file
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

Tylianakis, J.M., 2013. Ecology. The global plight of pollinators. Science 339, 1532–1533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zubkov, M.V., Tarran, G.A., 2008. High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature 455, 224–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baker, P.J., Harris, S., Webbon, C.C., 2002. Effect of British hunting ban on fox numbers. Nature 419, 34.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kellie, J.F., Higgs, R.E., Ryder, J.W., Major, A., Beach, T.G., Adler, C.H., Merchant, K., Knierman, M.D., 2014. Quantitative measurement of intact alpha-synuclein proteoforms from post-mortem control and Parkinson’s disease brain tissue by intact protein mass spectrometry. Sci. Rep. 4, 5797.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liphard, K.G., 2014. Labormanagement. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Cui, B., Zhang, N., Xu, J., Lian, X., Liu, D. (Eds.), 2016. Web-Age Information Management: 17th International Conference, WAIM 2016, Nanchang, China, June 3-5, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Markovich, N.M., Krieger, U.R., 2013. Analysis of Packet Transmission Processes in Peer-to-Peer Networks by Statistical Inference Methods, in: Biersack, E., Callegari, C., Matijasevic, M. (Eds.), Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: From Measurement, Classification, and Anomaly Detection to Quality of Experience, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 104–119.

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 Acta Histochemica.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Bizarre Creature That Looks “Half-Crocodile-Half-Buffalo” Born In Thai Village [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/half-crocodile-half-buffalo-born-thai-village/ (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, 1983. The Air Force Can Improve Its Maintenance Information Systems (No. GGD-83-20). 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

Alvarez, C., 2015. Support groups for children of depressed parents: A grant proposal (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

Pastan, L., 2015. The Bridge. New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tylianakis, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Tylianakis, 2013; Zubkov and Tarran, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Zubkov and Tarran, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kellie et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Histochemica
Abbreviation	Acta Histochem.
ISSN (print)	0065-1281
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine Histology