How to format your references using the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease. 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

Bejan A. 2014. Maxwell’s demons everywhere: evolving design as the arrow of time. Sci. Rep. 4:4017

A journal article with 2 authors

Marinoni C, Buzzi A. 2010. A geometric measure of dark energy with pairs of galaxies. Nature. 468(7323):539–41

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendell JT, ap Rhys CMJ, Dietz HC. 2002. Separable roles for rent1/hUpf1 in altered splicing and decay of nonsense transcripts. Science. 298(5592):419–22

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nelson KD, Mao ZQ, Maeno Y, Liu Y. 2004. Odd-parity superconductivity in Sr2RuO4. Science. 306(5699):1151–54

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boxer H. 2014. Profitable Day and Swing Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bougé L, Prasanna VK, eds. 2005. High Performance Computing - HiPC 2004: 11th International Conference, Bangalore, India, December 19-22, 2004. Proceedings, Vol. 3296. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XXV, 530 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Deb K, Lele S, Datta R. 2007. A Hybrid Evolutionary Multi-objective and SQP Based Procedure for Constrained Optimization. In Advances in Computation and Intelligence: Second International Symposium, ISICA 2007 Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007 Proceedings, ed L Kang, Y Liu, S Zeng, pp. 36–45. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015. Shell Gets Final Permit To Allow It To Begin Drilling In The Arctic. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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

Government Accountability Office. 2013. Education Research: Further Improvements Needed to Ensure Relevance and Assess Dissemination Efforts. GAO-14-8, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Madigan JP. 2008. Regulation of localization and function of the Rho family small GTPase, Rnd3. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of North Carolina

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

Hyduk J. 2017. A Year That Can Never Be Taken From Cleveland. New York Times, Jan. 1, p. SP4

In-text citations

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

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	Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1553-4006
ISSN (online)	1553-4014
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine