How to format your references using the Histopathology citation style

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

Booth BB. Climate change. Why the Pacific is cool. Science 2015; 347; 952.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rappaport SM, Smith MT. Epidemiology. Environment and disease risks. Science 2010; 330; 460-461.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riemer J, Bulleid N, Herrmann JM. Disulfide formation in the ER and mitochondria: two solutions to a common process. Science 2009; 324; 1284-1287.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pillow JW, Shlens J, Paninski L, et al. Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuronal population. Nature 2008; 454; 995-999.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wuestenberg K. Clinical Small Animal Care. Ames, Iowa, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Ambrosetti A. Perturbation Methods and Semilinear Elliptic Problems on Rn. Vol 240. (Malchiodi A, ed.). Basel: Birkhäuser; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Shoukry Y, Martin P, Tabuada P, et al. Non-invasive Spoofing Attacks for Anti-lock Braking Systems. In Bertoni G, Coron J-S, eds. Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2013: 15th International Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 20-23, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013; 55-72.

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 Histopathology.

Blog post

Andrew E. A Russian Spacecraft Is Heading For A Fiery Demise. IFLScience.

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. OPM Retirement Modernization: Progress Has Been Hindered by Longstanding Information Technology Management Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wicks CF. The Self-Concept of Students in Remediation in a Rural Community College in Mississippi. 2017.

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

Kishkovsky S. ‘Seagull’ Served 3 Ways On Russian Stage Menu. New York Times. November 4, 2004:E3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Histopathology
Abbreviation	Histopathology
ISSN (print)	0309-0167
ISSN (online)	1365-2559
Scope	General Medicine Histology Pathology and Forensic Medicine