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

Beaudet, A.L., 2012. Neuroscience. Preventable forms of autism? Science 338, 342–343.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bell, A.C., Felsenfeld, G., 2000. Methylation of a CTCF-dependent boundary controls imprinted expression of the Igf2 gene. Nature 405, 482–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nesvorný, D., Vokrouhlický, D., Bottke, W.F., 2006. The breakup of a main-belt asteroid 450 thousand years ago. Science 312, 1490.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pang, P.-C., Chiu, P.C.N., Lee, C.-L., Chang, L.-Y., Panico, M., Morris, H.R., Haslam, S.M., Khoo, K.-H., Clark, G.F., Yeung, W.S.B., Dell, A., 2011. Human sperm binding is mediated by the sialyl-Lewis(x) oligosaccharide on the zona pellucida. Science 333, 1761–1764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bagdonavičius, V., Julius, K., Nikulin, M.S., 2011. Non-parametric Tests for Complete Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Saleh, H., 2013. Pro JSF and HTML5: Building Rich Internet Components, Second Edition. ed. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Ali, B.A., Pushpavanam, S., 2010. PIV Techniques in Experimental Measurement of Two Phase (Gas-Liquid) Systems, in: Krishnan, J.M., Deshpande, A.P., Kumar, P.B.S. (Eds.), Rheology of Complex Fluids. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 111–129.

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

Davis, J., 2016. China May Have Passed Peak Coal Consumption [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-may-have-passed-peak-coal-consumption/ (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, 1975. Need for Improvements in the Automated Payroll System of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (No. FGMSD-75-31). 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

Gambini, F., 2011. Leadership capacity for succession and sustainability in a family-owned private school (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Hollander, S., 2002. Running for Herself and in Memory. New York Times F2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beaudet, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Beaudet, 2012; Bell and Felsenfeld, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bell and Felsenfeld, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Pang et al., 2011)

About the journal

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