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

Edwards EA (2014) Microbiology. Breathing the unbreathable. Science 346:424–425

A journal article with 2 authors

Li L, Weidner DJ (2008) Effect of phase transitions on compressional-wave velocities in the Earth’s mantle. Nature 454:984–986

A journal article with 3 authors

Galbraith CG, Yamada KM, Galbraith JA (2007) Polymerizing actin fibers position integrins primed to probe for adhesion sites. Science 315:992–995

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen S, Zhang H, Pu H, et al (2014) n-3 PUFA supplementation benefits microglial responses to myelin pathology. Sci Rep 4:7458

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhurin VV (2011) Industrial Ion Sources. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Prokop A (2012) Systems Biology in Biotech & Pharma: A Changing Paradigm. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Petrova K (2008) Mobile Payment: Towards a Customer-Centric Model. In: Hartmann S, Zhou X, Kirchberg M (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2008 Workshops: WISE 2008 International Workshops, Auckland, New Zealand, September 1-4, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 12–23

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

Davis J (2016) Newly Described Orchid Has A Tiny Demon At Its Center. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-described-orchid-has-a-tiny-demon-at-its-center/. 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 (2014) Maritime Infrastructure: Key Issues Related to Commercial Activity in the U.S. Arctic over the Next Decade. 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

Ford VF (2012) An Exploratory Investigation of the Relationship between Turnover Intentions, Work Exhaustion and Disengagement among IT Professionals in a Single Institution of Higher Education in a Major Metropolitan Area. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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 (2008) Justices Will Hear Liability Cases With Federal-State Disparity at Issue. New York Times C3

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