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

Kazazian, H.H., Jr, 2004. Mobile elements: drivers of genome evolution. Science 303, 1626–1632.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelemen, P.B., Hirth, G., 2007. A periodic shear-heating mechanism for intermediate-depth earthquakes in the mantle. Nature 446, 787–790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, J.F., Stoner, G.R., Reynolds, J.H., 2004. Object-based attention determines dominance in binocular rivalry. Nature 429, 410–413.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shpyrko, O.G., Streitel, R., Balagurusamy, V.S.K., Grigoriev, A.Y., Deutsch, M., Ocko, B.M., Meron, M., Lin, B., Pershan, P.S., 2006. Surface crystallization in a liquid AuSi alloy. Science 313, 77–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levin, M.A., Kalal, T.T., 2005. Improving Product Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Peinke, J., Schaumann, P., Barth, S. (Eds.), 2007. Wind Energy: Proceedings of the Euromech Colloquium. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Nicolau, M., Costelloe, D., 2014. Size Does Not Matter: Evolving Parameters for a Cayley Graph Visualiser Using 64 Bits, in: Romero, J., McDermott, J., Correia, J. (Eds.), Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design: Third European Conference, EvoMUSART 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 38–49.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Woman Finds Literal Nightmare Crawling Around Inside Her Head [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/woman-literal-nightmare-crawling-inside-head/ (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, 1996. Export Controls: Sale of Telecommunications Equipment to China (No. NSIAD-97-5). 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

Johnson, C., 2012. Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kazazian, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kazazian, 2004; Kelemen and Hirth, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kelemen and Hirth, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Shpyrko et al., 2006)

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