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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Sette A (2000) Tools of the trade in vaccine design. Science 290:2074b–5b

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranta E, Kaitala V (2006) Comment on “Stability via asynchrony in Drosophila metapopulations with low migration rates.” Science 314:420; author reply 420

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos FC, Santos MD, Pacheco JM (2008) Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games. Nature 454:213–216

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sousa C, Novais Â, Magalhães A, et al (2013) Diverse high-risk B2 and D Escherichia coli clones depicted by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. Sci Rep 3:3278

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nova R (2013) Soil Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Klees SJ, Samoff J, Stromquist NP (eds) (2012) The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

St John S (2016) Can Older Citizens Lead the Way to a Universal Basic Income? In: Mays J, Marston G, Tomlinson J (eds) Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand: Perspectives from the Neoliberal Frontier. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 95–114

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 (2017) Do Vegetarians Live Longer? Probably, But Not Because They’re Vegetarian. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/do-vegetarians-live-longer-probably-but-not-because-theyre-vegetarian/. 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) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Standards Needed to Improve Identification of Racial and Ethnic Overrepresentation in Special Education. 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

Dovale MJ (2013) Postwar japan’s hybrid modernity of in-betweenness: Historical, literary, and social perspectives. 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

Novick SM (2013) Local Bakeries Prepare for Holiday Overdrive. New York Times LI10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sette 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Sette 2000; Ranta and Kaitala 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ranta and Kaitala 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sousa 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