How to format your references using the Human Pathology citation style

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

[1]

Churchland PS. Self-representation in nervous systems. Science 2002;296:308–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stark LA, Pompei K. Winner of Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. Making genetics easy to understand. Science 2010;327:538–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lü L, Zhang Z-K, Zhou T. Deviation of Zipf’s and Heaps’ Laws in human languages with limited dictionary sizes. Sci Rep 2013;3:1082.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kasischke KA, Vishwasrao HD, Fisher PJ, Zipfel WR, Webb WW. Neural activity triggers neuronal oxidative metabolism followed by astrocytic glycolysis. Science 2004;305:99–103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mackevičius V. Introduction to Stochastic Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Fortis M, editor. The Pillars of the Italian Economy: Manufacturing, Food & Wine, Tourism. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rudels B, Anderson L, Eriksson P, Fahrbach E, Jakobsson M, Jones EP, et al. Observations in the Ocean. In: Lemke P, Jacobi H-W, editors. Arctic Climate Change: The ACSYS Decade and Beyond, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012, p. 117–98.

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 Human Pathology.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Here Are The Ages You Peak At Everything Throughout Life. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/here-are-the-ages-you-peak-at-everything-throughout-lifes/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Farmers Home Administration’s ADP Development Project--Current Status and Unresolved Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sachdev NA. An Evaluation of the District of Columbia Summer Youth Employment Program. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2012.

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

[1]

Vecsey G. St. John’s Takes an Opener, With No Fight From UConn. New York Times 2010:B13.

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	Human Pathology
Abbreviation	Hum. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0046-8177
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine