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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental and Toxicologic 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

Gu, L., 2003. Comment on “Climate and management contributions to recent trends in U.S. agricultural yields.” Science 300, 1505; author reply 1505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aguzzi, A., Haass, C., 2003. Games played by rogue proteins in prion disorders and Alzheimer’s disease. Science 302, 814–818.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khatiwala, S., Primeau, F., Hall, T., 2009. Reconstruction of the history of anthropogenic CO(2) concentrations in the ocean. Nature 462, 346–349.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Armond, J.W., Saha, K., Rana, A.A., Oates, C.J., Jaenisch, R., Nicodemi, M., Mukherjee, S., 2014. A stochastic model dissects cell states in biological transition processes. Sci. Rep. 4, 3692.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGrath, A.E., 2011. Luther’s Theology of the Cross. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Müller, B. (Ed.), 2011. German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010: Urban Regional Resilience: How Do Cities and Regions Deal with Change?, German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Grimm, F., Fets, L., Anastasiou, D., 2016. Gas Chromatography Coupled to Mass Spectrometry (GC–MS) to Study Metabolism in Cultured Cells, in: Koumenis, C., Coussens, L.M., Giaccia, A., Hammond, E. (Eds.), Tumor Microenvironment: Study Protocols, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 59–88.

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 Toxicologic Pathology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Dad Builds An Awesome Star Wars Snowspeeder Costume From His Sons Wheelchair [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dad-builds-his-kid-awesome-star-wars-snowspeeder-costume/ (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, 2009. United States Merchant Marine Academy: Internal Control Weaknesses Resulted in Improper Sources and Uses of Funds; Some Corrective Actions Are Under Way (No. GAO-09-635). 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

Mohajer, R., 2012. A transcendental approach to John Coltrane: applying concepts of spirituality to Giant Steps into the Cosmos (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Hubbard, B., 2016. An Online Purveyor of Polygamous Bliss. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gu, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Aguzzi and Haass, 2003; Gu, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Aguzzi and Haass, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Armond et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology
Abbreviation	Exp. Toxicol. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0940-2993
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine Toxicology