How to format your references using the Comparative Clinical Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Clinical 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

Lane J (2009) Science innovation. Assessing the impact of science funding. Science 324:1273–1275

A journal article with 2 authors

Schuster-Böckler B, Lehner B (2012) Chromatin organization is a major influence on regional mutation rates in human cancer cells. Nature 488:504–507

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker SA, Hanuscin DL, Bearnes CJ (2008) The pipeline. Igniting girls’ interest in science. Science 319:1621–1622

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang S, Li E, Porth I, et al (2014) Regulation of secondary cell wall biosynthesis by poplar R2R3 MYB transcription factor PtrMYB152 in Arabidopsis. Sci Rep 4:5054

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abner DJ (2010) The ETF Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Casanova MF, El-Baz AS, Suri JS (eds) (2013) Imaging the Brain in Autism. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Liu Y, Mitryukovskiy S, Ding P, et al (2015) Backward Lasing of Femtosecond Plasma Filaments. In: Yamanouchi K, Roso L, Li R, et al. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 89–103

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 Comparative Clinical Pathology.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Mother Dolphins Sing To Their Babies In The Womb. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mother-dolphins-sing-to-their-babies-in-the-womb/. 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 (2013) Higher Education: Experts Cited a Range of Requirements as Burdensome. 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

Woodworth JW (2017) Secure Semantic Search over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Perot Stresses Homey Image, But the Image Is No Accident. New York Times A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lane 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Lane 2009; Schuster-Böckler and Lehner 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Schuster-Böckler and Lehner 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Clinical Pathology
Abbreviation	Comp. Clin. Path.
ISSN (print)	1618-5641
ISSN (online)	1618-565X
Scope	Anatomy Pathology and Forensic Medicine