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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Goebel T. Anthropology. The missing years for modern humans. Science 2007;315:194–196.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Di Domizio J, Gilliet M. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. Designer cells finely tuned for therapy. Science 2015;350:1478–1479.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Mooney H, Cropper A, Reid W. Confronting the human dilemma. Nature 2005;434:561–562.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Ulloa Ulloa C, Acevedo-Rodríguez P, Beck S, et al. An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas. Science 2017;358:1614–1617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Grose M. Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.
An edited book
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Hacke U, ed. Functional and Ecological Xylem Anatomy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
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Fitzclarence L. Reflections on the Deakin Assemblage Of/For the Critical Project. In: Tinning R, Sirna K, eds. Education, Social Justice and the Legacy of Deakin University: Reflections of the Deakin Diaspora. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011:41–52.

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 Surgical Pathology.

Blog post
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Fang J. How Much Sleep Do You Really Need? IFLScience 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-much-sleep-do-you-really-need/. 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
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Government Accountability Office. Status of the Air Force’s Missile X Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Cline D. Criminal faces: Clinical experiences of forensic artists. 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
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Vecsey G. Pioneers Continue To Shepherd Women’s Basketball. New York Times. August 19, 2010:B14.

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 titleAmerican Journal of Surgical Pathology
AbbreviationAm. J. Surg. Pathol.
ISSN (print)0147-5185
ISSN (online)1532-0979
ScopeAnatomy
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Surgery

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