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

Stanley, M., 2012. Perspective: Vaccinate boys too. Nature 488, S10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giovannoni, S.J., Vergin, K.L., 2012. Seasonality in ocean microbial communities. Science 335, 671–676.

A journal article with 3 authors

Imaizumi, T., Kay, S.A., Schroeder, J.I., 2007. Circadian rhythms. Daily watch on metabolism. Science 318, 1730–1731.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stivala, A., Robins, G., Kashima, Y., Kirley, M., 2014. Ultrametric distribution of culture vectors in an extended Axelrod model of cultural dissemination. Sci. Rep. 4, 4870.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basener, W.F., 2006. Topology and Its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ehrenpreis, E.D., Marsh, R. de W., Small, W., Jr. (Eds.), 2015. Radiation Therapy for Pelvic Malignancy and its Consequences. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Chacón Rebollo, T., Lewandowski, R., 2014. Laws of the Turbulence by Similarity Principles, in: Lewandowski, R. (Ed.), Mathematical and Numerical Foundations of Turbulence Models and Applications, Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 115–153.

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

Andrew, D., 2017. Why You Might Want To Think Twice About Surrendering Online Privacy For The Sake Of Convenience [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-you-might-want-to-think-twice-about-surrendering-online-privacy-for-the-sake-of-convenience/ (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, 1999. Federal Research Grants: Compensation Paid to Graduate Students at the University of California (No. OSI-99-8). 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

Morrison, C., 2009. Who am I? Identity formation of children in foster care: A curriculum development (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

Saslow, L., 2007. Power Hangs in Balance In Nassau Legislature. New York Times 14LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stanley, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Giovannoni and Vergin, 2012; Stanley, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Giovannoni and Vergin, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Stivala et al., 2014)

About the journal

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