How to format your references using the Annales de Pathologie citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annales de Pathologie. 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]

Geden O. Policy: Climate advisers must maintain integrity. Nature 2015;521:27–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Levitt SD, List JA. Economics. Homo economicus evolves. Science 2008;319:909–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Curry R, Dickson B, Yashayaev I. A change in the freshwater balance of the Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades. Nature 2003;426:826–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Benazzi S, Douka K, Fornai C, Bauer CC, Kullmer O, Svoboda J, et al. Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour. Nature 2011;479:525–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kanel GC. Pathology of Liver Diseases. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Ernst A, Herth FJF, editors. Principles and Practice of Interventional Pulmonology. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ballejos LC, Montagna JM. Stakeholders Selection for Interorganizational Systems: A Systematic Approach. In: Avison D, Elliot S, Krogstie J, Pries-Heje J, editors. The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976–2006 and Beyond: IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC-8, Information System Stream, August 21–23, 2006, Santiago, Chile, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006, p. 39–50.

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 Annales de Pathologie.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Antidepressants Don’t Work for Children And Adolescents. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antidepressants-dont-work-for-children-and-adolescents/ (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. Federal Aviation Administration: Commercial Space Launch Industry Developments Present Multiple Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Coleman ED. The Nature of Leadership: A Case Study of Distributed Leadership Amidst A Participative Change Effort. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2014.

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]

Paulson M. Artistic Director Leaves The Labyrinth Theater. New York Times 2017:C3.

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	Annales de Pathologie
Abbreviation	Ann. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0242-6498
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine