How to format your references using the Brain Tumor Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brain Tumor 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:

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

Sarewitz D (2010) Entertaining science. Nature 466:27

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen W, Li H (2014) How does carbon nanoring deform to spiral induced by carbon nanotube? Sci Rep 4:3865

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang TT, Parides MK, Palese P (2012) Seroevidence for H5N1 influenza infections in humans: meta-analysis. Science 335:1463

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gordon JR, Goodman MH, Potter MF, Haynes KF (2014) Population variation in and selection for resistance to pyrethroid-neonicotinoid insecticides in the bed bug. Sci Rep 4:3836

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens H (2012) Applied Building Physics. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Bychkov V, Golubkov G, Nikitin A (2010) The Atmosphere and Ionosphere: Dynamics, Processes and Monitoring. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Andersson D, Gurvich V, Hansen TD (2009) On Acyclicity of Games with Cycles. In: Goldberg AV, Zhou Y (eds) Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: 5th International Conference, AAIM 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 15-17, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 15–28

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 Brain Tumor Pathology.

Blog post

Evans K (2017) Distinct Shapes Of Ancient Skulls Indicates Multiple Migrations Into Early Americas. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/distinct-shapes-of-ancient-skulls-indicates-multiple-migrations-into-early-americas/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1991) Test and Evaluation: Description of Projects in DOD’s Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program. 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

Stefania S (2017) From Italian American Icon to Working Class Hero: Perspectives on Pietro di Donato’s “Christ in Concrete.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Grow ML (2015) Gun Rights for Terrorists. New York Times A27

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	Brain Tumor Pathology
Abbreviation	Brain Tumor Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1433-7398
ISSN (online)	1861-387X
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Clinical Neurology Oncology