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

Stewart W (2007) Applied physics. The power to set you free. Science 317:55–56

A journal article with 2 authors

Narayan R, Quataert E (2005) Black hole accretion. Science 307:77–80

A journal article with 3 authors

Colombani J, Andersen DS, Léopold P (2012) Secreted peptide Dilp8 coordinates Drosophila tissue growth with developmental timing. Science 336:582–585

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Periana RA, Mironov O, Taube D, et al (2003) Catalytic, oxidative condensation of CH4 to CH3COOH in one step via CH activation. Science 301:814–818

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lu J, Zhao X, Yamada S (2016) Harmonic Balance Finite Element Method. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Antona M, Stephanidis C (2016) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Techniques and Environments: 10th International Conference, UAHCI 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-22, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Domańska J, Głomb P, Kowalski P, Nowak S (2009) Modeling of Internet 3D Traffic Using Hidden Markov Models. In: Tkacz E, Kapczynski A (eds) Internet – Technical Development and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–44

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) Dinosaurs May Have Been Cooing To Each Other. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-may-have-been-cooing-to-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 (2000) Information Technology Investment Management: An Overview of GAO’s Assessment Framework (Exposure Draft). 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

Powers KL (2012) Real-time video streaming: Impact on maternal anxiety and the maternal-infant bond. 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

LaFRANIERE S, Kirkpatrick DD, Vogel KP (2017) Guest at Trump Tower Meeting Has Aided Close Allies of Putin. New York Times A1

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
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