How to format your references using the American Journal of Clinical Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Clinical 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	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

1. Nebel CE. Chemistry. Surface-conducting diamond. Science 2007;318:1391-1392.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Brazeau MD, Friedman M. The origin and early phylogenetic history of jawed vertebrates. Nature 2015;520:490-497.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hines PJ, Jasny BR, Mervis J. Adding a T to the three R’s. Education & technology. Introduction. Science 2009;323:53.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Colomer-de-Simón P, Serrano MÁ, Beiró MG, et al. Deciphering the global organization of clustering in real complex networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:2517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Micouin P. Model-Based Systems Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. McLean KC, Pasupathi M, eds. Narrative Development in Adolescence: Creating the Storied Self. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Stacul F. Late Adverse Reactions to Intravascular Iodinated Contrast Media. In: Thomsen HS, ed. Contrast Media: Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006:27-31.

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 American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

Blog post

1. Fang J. 500-Million-Year-Old Fish Had First Signs of Jaws. IFLScience 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/500-million-year-old-fish-had-first-signs-jaws/. 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. English Language Learning: Diverse Federal and State Efforts to Support Adult English Language Learning Could Benefit from More Coordination. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lieberman DS. “Stroke Your Thoroughbreds and Kick Your Donkeys”: Power and the Secondary Administrative Distribution of Teaching Assignments. 2017.

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. Currie A, Hay G. Big Temptations For Wells Fargo. New York Times. October 11, 2011:B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	American Journal of Clinical Pathology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Clin. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0002-9173
ISSN (online)	1943-7722
Scope	General Medicine