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]

Blow N. Antibodies: antibodies in the fast lane. Nature 2007;447:743.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Coley PD, Kursar TA. Ecology. On tropical forests and their pests. Science 2014;343:35–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shim S-B, Imboden M, Mohanty P. Synchronized oscillation in coupled nanomechanical oscillators. Science 2007;316:95–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Grebmeier JM, Overland JE, Moore SE, Farley EV, Carmack EC, Cooper LW, et al. A major ecosystem shift in the northern Bering Sea. Science 2006;311:1461–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bayuk JL, Healey J, Rohmeyer P, Sachs MH, Schmidt J, Weiss J. Cyber Security Policy Guidebook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Zappoli B. Heat Transfers and Related Effects in Supercritical Fluids. vol. 108. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Das S, Pandey DN, Sukavanam N. Approximation of Solutions of a Stochastic Differential Equation. In: Agrawal PN, Mohapatra RN, Singh U, Srivastava HM, editors. Mathematical Analysis and its Applications: Roorkee, India, December 2014, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015, p. 51–62.

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

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Fang J. New Whale Species Possibly Discovered Near Antarctica. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-whale-species-possibly-discovered-near-antarctica/ (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. Results Act: Observations on NASA’s May 1997 Draft Strategic Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kinney CE. Realtime controller tuning for periodic disturbance rejection with application to active noise control. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2009.

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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Otis J. Giving Up Almost Everything to Care for His Wife? ‘I See It as a Pleasure.’ New York Times 2016:A20.

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