How to format your references using the Diagnostic Histopathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Diagnostic Histopathology. 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

Dyson F. The death of a star. Nature 2005; 438: 1086.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson L, Head JW Iii. An integrated model of kimberlite ascent and eruption. Nature 2007; 447: 53–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cram DS, Song B, Trounson AO. Genotyping of Rhesus SCNT pluripotent stem cell lines. Nature 2007; 450: E12-4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Self S, Blake S, Sharma K, Widdowson M, Sephton S. Sulfur and chlorine in late Cretaceous Deccan magmas and eruptive gas release. Science 2008; 319: 1654–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiessen H. Measuring the Real World. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.

An edited book

Siegrist RL, Crimi M, Simpkin TJ, eds. In Situ Chemical Oxidation for Groundwater Remediation. New York, NY: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Dhaliwal S, Deakins D. Entrepreneurial Discovery and Asian Entrepreneurship in the UK. In: Lundström A, Zhou C, von Friedrichs Y, Sundin E, eds. Social Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

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 Diagnostic Histopathology.

Blog post

Fang J. Rice May Have Been Domesticated Three Separate Times Across Asia. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rice-may-have-been-domesticated-three-separate-times-across-asia/ (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. Rotation Policies and Practices Have Been Changed for the Better--But Room for Improvement Remains. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tsang SD. The depth range of azimuthal anisotropy beneath Southern California via analyses of long-period Rayleigh-waves. 2012.

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. Defense, Though Hard to Gauge, Gives Cubs a Clear Edge. New York Times 1 Nov 2016; B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Diagnostic Histopathology
ISSN (print)	1756-2317
ISSN (online)	1876-7621
Scope