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

Watzman H. Software spend boosts Israeli R&D. Nature 2000; 405; 603.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fan QR, Hendrickson WA. Structure of human follicle-stimulating hormone in complex with its receptor. Nature 2005; 433; 269-277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gung Y, Panning M, Romanowicz B. Global anisotropy and the thickness of continents. Nature 2003; 422; 707-711.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jin R, Rummel A, Binz T, et al. Botulinum neurotoxin B recognizes its protein receptor with high affinity and specificity. Nature 2006; 444; 1092-1095.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lynn PA. Electricity from Sunlight. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Gengnagel C, Kilian A, Palz N, et al., eds. Computational Design Modelling: Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium Berlin 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Cimatti A, Griggio A, Mover S, et al. IC3 Modulo Theories via Implicit Predicate Abstraction. In Ábrahám E, Havelund K, eds. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 20th International Conference, TACAS 2014, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2014, Grenoble, France, April 5-13, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014; 46-61.

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. New Study: No Increase In Brain Cancer Across 29 Years Of Mobile Use In Australia. 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. Status of Tax Systems Modernization, Tax Delinquencies, and the Potential for Return-Free Filing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rey D. Chaos, Observability and Symplectic Structure in Optimal Estimation. 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

Kinsley M. Paid Leave Counts as Progress. New York Times. May 27, 2017:SR3.

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