How to format your references using the Experimental and Molecular Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental and Molecular Pathology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Ball, P., 2008. Science & music: facing the music. Nature 453, 160–162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moine, H., Mandel, J.L., 2001. Biomedicine. Do G quartets orchestrate fragile X pathology? Science 294, 2487–2488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-Ami Bartal, I., Decety, J., Mason, P., 2011. Empathy and pro-social behavior in rats. Science 334, 1427–1430.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kumar, A., Godwin, J.W., Gates, P.B., Garza-Garcia, A.A., Brockes, J.P., 2007. Molecular basis for the nerve dependence of limb regeneration in an adult vertebrate. Science 318, 772–777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, A.J., 2014. Markets for Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lawrence, T., Hagemann, T. (Eds.), 2012. Tumour-Associated Macrophages. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Jeske, S., Meinhardt, F., Klassen, R., 2007. Extranuclear Inheritance: Virus-Like DNA-Elements in Yeast, in: Esser, K., Löttge, U., Beyschlag, W., Murata, J. (Eds.), Progress in Botany, Progress in Botany. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 98–129.

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 Experimental and Molecular Pathology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Renewable Energy Accounted For Over Half Of All Global Power Capacity For First Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/renewable-energy-accounted-for-over-half-of-all-global-power-capacity-for-first-time/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. Aerospace Guidance and Metrology Center: Cost Growth and Other Factors Affect Closure and Privatization (No. NSIAD-95-60). 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

Meyer, M.A., 2014. Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of the Mediterranean Mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Woolfe, Z., 2013. The Newest Russia House. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ball, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Ball, 2008; Moine and Mandel, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Moine and Mandel, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kumar et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental and Molecular Pathology
Abbreviation	Exp. Mol. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0014-4800
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology Pathology and Forensic Medicine