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

Taylor WR. A ‘periodic table’ for protein structures. Nature 2002; 416; 657-660.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bollinger JM Jr, Matthews ML. Biochemistry. Remote enzyme microsurgery. Science 2010; 327; 1337-1338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao J, Goldman AS, Hartwig JF. Oxidative addition of ammonia to form a stable monomeric amido hydride complex. Science 2005; 307; 1080-1082.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Houde M, Bertholet S, Gagnon E, et al. Phagosomes are competent organelles for antigen cross-presentation. Nature 2003; 425; 402-406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gamenara D, Seoane GA, Saenz-Méndez P, et al. Redox Biocatalysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Susilo W, Mu Y, Seberry J, eds. Information Security and Privacy: 17th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2012, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 9-11, 2012. Proceedings. Vol 7372. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Fournier S, Doan VD, Joseph V. Sex-Specific Effects of Daily Gavage with a Mixed Progesterone and Glucocorticoid Receptor Antagonist on Hypoxic Ventilatory Response in Newborn Rats. In Nurse CA, Gonzalez C, Peers C et al., eds. Arterial Chemoreception: From Molecules to Systems. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012; 29-35.

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

Hale T. The Algorithm That Could Catch Serial Killers. 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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Reserve Is Acting to Ensure Financial Institutions Are Fixing Systems, But Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baciu AB. Biopolitics and the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 2009 in the United States: Power, immunity, and the law. 2010.

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

Vecsey G. Ryan’s Gospel of Green Softens Sting of Defeat. New York Times. January 26, 2010:B11.

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