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

Luo J-J (2011) Climate science: ocean dynamics not required? Nature 477:544–546

A journal article with 2 authors

Hazeltine E, Ivry RB (2002) Neuroscience. Can we teach the cerebellum new tricks? Science 296:1979–1980

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma H, Aihara K, Chen L (2014) Detecting causality from nonlinear dynamics with short-term time series. Sci Rep 4:7464

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen W-H, Xu X-D, Luo G-F, et al (2013) Dual-targeting pro-apoptotic peptide for programmed cancer cell death via specific mitochondria damage. Sci Rep 3:3468

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sandou G (2013) Metaheuristic Optimization for the Design of Automatic Control Laws. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Tseng K-Y (ed) (2009) Cortico-Subcortical Dynamics in Parkinson’s Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Barreto PS, de Carvalho PHP, Oliveira RD, Ceppo MP (2008) Network Planning and Adaptive Routing for Multimedia Traffic. In: Ma Y, Choi D, Ata S (eds) Challenges for Next Generation Network Operations and Service Management: 11th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, APNOMS 2008, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–40

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

Hamilton K (2016) Scientist At Work: Revealing The Secret Lives Of Urban Rats. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientist-at-work-revealing-the-secret-lives-of-urban-rats/. 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) Aviation Security: TSA Should Limit Future Funding for Behavior Detection Activities. 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

Wenzel AB (2009) Learning the culture of teaching: A middle school perspective. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices’ Ruling Limits Lawsuits On Pay Disparity. 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 (Luo 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hazeltine and Ivry 2002; Luo 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hazeltine and Ivry 2002)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2013)

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