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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smith, M., 2009. Time to turn off the lights. Nature 457, 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan, Q., Zhao, Y.-P., 2013. Wetting on flexible hydrophilic pillar-arrays. Sci. Rep. 3, 1944.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naeem, S., Hahn, D.R., Schuurman, G., 2000. Producer-decomposer co-dependency influences biodiversity effects. Nature 403, 762–764.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, X., Yang, Z.-Y., Li, Y., Hogerkorp, C.-M., Schief, W.R., Seaman, M.S., Zhou, T., Schmidt, S.D., Wu, L., Xu, L., Longo, N.S., McKee, K., O’Dell, S., Louder, M.K., Wycuff, D.L., Feng, Y., Nason, M., Doria-Rose, N., Connors, M., Kwong, P.D., Roederer, M., Wyatt, R.T., Nabel, G.J., Mascola, J.R., 2010. Rational design of envelope identifies broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies to HIV-1. Science 329, 856–861.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wootton, R.J., Smith, C., 2014. Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Slobounov, S., Sebastianelli, W. (Eds.), 2006. Foundations of Sport-Related Brain Injuries. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Moot, R., Retoré, C., 2012. The Multimodal Lambek Calculus, in: Retoré, C. (Ed.), The Logic of Categorial Grammars: A Deductive Account of Natural Language Syntax and Semantics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 149–191.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Manta Rays Are Not Long-Distance Migrators, Study Reveals [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/manta-rays-not-long-distance-migrators-study-reveals/ (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, 2004. Aviation Security: Challenges in Using Biometric Technologies (No. GAO-04-785T). 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

Lin, T.S., 2014. The invisible “religious” minority: Working with the nonreligious bereaved (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

Schwartz, J., 2017. Exxon Misled the Public on the Risks of Climate Change, a Study Says. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Smith, 2009; Yuan and Zhao, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yuan and Zhao, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2010)

About the journal

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