How to format your references using the Current Pathobiology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pathobiology Reports. 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

Burrows A (2000) Supernova explosions in the Universe. Nature 403:727–733

A journal article with 2 authors

Shin H, Iwasaki A (2012) A vaccine strategy that protects against genital herpes by establishing local memory T cells. Nature 491:463–467

A journal article with 3 authors

Topper TP, Holmer LE, Caron J-B (2014) Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Sci Rep 4:6704

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Watanabe T, Tomizawa S-I, Mitsuya K, et al (2011) Role for piRNAs and noncoding RNA in de novo DNA methylation of the imprinted mouse Rasgrf1 locus. Science 332:848–852

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Warren A (2013) Dunes. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Sun B (2014) T Helper Cell Differentiation and Their Function. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Rizvi NB, Nagra SA (2014) Materials and Methods. In: Nagra SA (ed) Minerals and Lipids Profiles in Cardiovascular Disorders in South Asia: Cu, Mg, Se, Zn and Lipid Serum Profiles for the Example of Patients in Pakistan. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–75

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 Current Pathobiology Reports.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) What If Intelligent Machines Could Learn From Each Other? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-if-intelligent-machines-could-learn-from-each-other/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Needs to Accelerate Time Frames for Completing Contingency Planning. 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

Aldaco R (2010) Latinas attainment of higher education: What factors contribute to their success? 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

Wagner J (2017) Yankees Ride Out Chapman’s Latest Turbulence and Rebuff the Mets Again. New York Times B11

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	Current Pathobiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Pathobiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-485X
Scope