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]

Mortlock D. Astronomy: The age of the quasars. Nature 2014;514:43–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Marcus DM, Grollman AP. Science and government. Review for NCCAM is overdue. Science 2006;313:301–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen A, Wang S, Pacala SW. Comment on “Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.” Science 2012;336:1639; author reply 1639.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Han X, Jin M, Breuker K, McLafferty FW. Extending top-down mass spectrometry to proteins with masses greater than 200 kilodaltons. Science 2006;314:109–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wilson GP. Managing to the New Regulatory Reality. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Kant K, Pemmaraju SV, Sivalingam KM, Wu J, editors. Distributed Computing and Networking: 11th International Conference, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India, January 3-6, 2010. Proceedings. vol. 5935. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chowdhury R. Russian Medical Diplomacy in Ethiopia, 1896–1913. In: Winterbottom A, Tesfaye F, editors. Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World: The Modern Period, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016, p. 115–45.

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]

Davis J. Why Are Pandas Black And White? IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-pandas-black-and-white/ (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. Automated Patent System: Information on PTO’s Program to Automate Patent Information and Processes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Slade SW. The complexity of leading in the 21st century: A case study of a successful charter school in an urban school district. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2010.

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]

Johnson G. Recognizing the Artifice in Artificial Intelligence. New York Times 2016:D5.

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