How to format your references using the Advances in Molecular Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Molecular Pathology. 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

[1]

Y. Xie, Sociology of science. “Undemocracy”: inequalities in science, Science. 344 (2014) 809–810.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D. Pasteris, B. Wopenka, Laser-Raman spectroscopy: images of the Earth’s earliest fossils?, Nature. 420 (2002) 476–7; discussion 477.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Fiser, C. Chiu, M. Weliky, Small modulation of ongoing cortical dynamics by sensory input during natural vision, Nature. 431 (2004) 573–578.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Prevedel, P. Walther, F. Tiefenbacher, P. Böhi, R. Kaltenbaek, T. Jennewein, A. Zeilinger, High-speed linear optics quantum computing using active feed-forward, Nature. 445 (2007) 65–69.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F.J. Fabozzi, P.P. Drake, Finance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

D. Eppstein, Media Theory: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, First edition, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.K. Jackson, W. Schulte, FORMULA 2.0: A Language for Formal Specifications, in: Z. Liu, J. Woodcock, H. Zhu (Eds.), Unifying Theories of Programming and Formal Engineering Methods: International Training School on Software Engineering, Held at ICTAC 2013, Shanghai, China, August 26-30, 2013, Advanced Lectures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 156–206.

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 Advances in Molecular Pathology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How World War II Spurred Vaccine Innovation, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-world-war-ii-spurred-vaccine-innovation/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Mass Transit: Bus Rapid Transit Shows Promise, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.E. Manzanares, Effect of a preoperative multidisciplinary education program on weight management after bariatric surgery, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

[1]

B. Meier, S. Ember, Questions on Direction of a Paper in Las Vegas, New York Times. (2015) B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Molecular Pathology
ISSN (print)	2589-4080
Scope

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