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

Taylor, R., 2014. Hydrology: When wells run dry. Nature 516, 179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flint, J., Mott, R., 2008. Applying mouse complex-trait resources to behavioural genetics. Nature 456, 724–727.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rauzi, M., Lenne, P.-F., Lecuit, T., 2010. Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling. Nature 468, 1110–1114.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Douma, S., Van Laar, T., Zevenhoven, J., Meuwissen, R., Van Garderen, E., Peeper, D.S., 2004. Suppression of anoikis and induction of metastasis by the neurotrophic receptor TrkB. Nature 430, 1034–1039.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexander, M., Walkenbach, J., 2010. Excel® Dashboards & Reports. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bhowmik, S.K., 2013. Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised: Street Vendors in the Urban Economy, India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramsay, J.O., Hooker, G., Graves, S., 2009. Smoothing: Computing Curves from Noisy Data, in: Hooker, G., Graves, S. (Eds.), Functional Data Analysis with R and MATLAB. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 59–82.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Saturn’s Bulge Tells Us That Some Of Its Moons Are Younger Than Thought [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/saturns-bulge-tells-us-that-some-of-its-moons-are-younger-than-thought/ (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, 1997. Surface Transportation: Regional Distribution of Federal Highway Funds (No. RCED/HEHS-97-167R). 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

Kim, S.-C., 2008. Defiant institutionalization: Democratization and social movements in South Korea, 1984–2002 (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Bray, C., 2017. Payments Firm In Britain Draws 2 Bids For Takeover. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Flint and Mott, 2008; Taylor, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Flint and Mott, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Douma et al., 2004)

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