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]

Joye SB. MARINE SCIENCE. Deepwater Horizon, 5 years on. Science 2015;349:592–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Flint J, Munafò M. Schizophrenia: genesis of a complex disease. Nature 2014;511:412–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Brooke J, Rosenbaum TF, Aeppli G. Tunable quantum tunnelling of magnetic domain walls. Nature 2001;413:610–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lebreton S, Grabe V, Omondi AB, Ignell R, Becher PG, Hansson BS, et al. Love makes smell blind: mating suppresses pheromone attraction in Drosophila females via Or65a olfactory neurons. Sci Rep 2014;4:7119.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kagan E, Ben-Gal I. Probabilistic Search for Tracking Targets. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Costa FF, Conran N, editors. Sickle Cell Anemia: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Koifman A, Chitayat D, Bashiri A. Genetics of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss. In: Bashiri A, Harlev A, Agarwal A, editors. Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: Evidence-Based Evaluation, Diagnosis and Treatment, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 53–65.

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]

Taub B. Cannabinoids May Cause Memory Loss By Depriving Brain Cells Of Energy, According To Study. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/cannabinoids-may-cause-memory-loss-depriving-brain-cells-energy/ (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. Surface Transportation: Moving into the 21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Guillory MK. An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in the State of Tennessee. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

Brantley B, Green J, Soloski A. Too Soon? Or Right on Cue? New York Times 2017:AR1.

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

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