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

Ahmed F (2010) Health: Edible advice. Nature 468:S10-2

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruths J, Ruths D (2014) Network models. Response to Comment on “Control profiles of complex networks.” Science 346:561

A journal article with 3 authors

Faupl P, Richter W, Urbanek C (2003) Geochronology: dating of the Herto hominin fossils. Nature 426:621–2; discussion 622

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shelton AO, Samhouri JF, Stier AC, Levin PS (2014) Assessing trade-offs to inform ecosystem-based fisheries management of forage fish. Sci Rep 4:7110

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Relethford JH (2017) 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bouleau N (2015) Dirichlet Forms Methods for Poisson Point Measures and Lévy Processes: With Emphasis on the Creation-Annihilation Techniques. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Niss M (2013) Modeling a Crucial Aspect of Students’ Mathematical Modeling. In: Lesh R, Galbraith PL, Haines CR, Hurford A (eds) Modeling Students’ Mathematical Modeling Competencies: ICTMA 13. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–59

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 E (2014) Wild Gorillas Observed Using Tools To Acquire Food For First Time. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-gorillas-observed-using-tools-acquire-food-first-time/. 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 (2012) Higher Education: A Small Percentage of Families Save in 529 Plans. 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

Gan K (2011) A Parity-Violating Spin Rotation Measurement of Transversely Polarized Cold Neutrons Through a Liquid Helium Target. 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

Vecsey G (2011) Seeing a Former Champion Beyond His Combative Side. New York Times B18

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