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]

Dalton R. Older women scientists fight USGS over layoffs. US Geological Survey. Nature 2000;404:219.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wentz FJ, Schabel M. Precise climate monitoring using complementary satellite data sets. Nature 2000;403:414–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Plaks V, Koopman CD, Werb Z. Cancer. Circulating tumor cells. Science 2013;341:1186–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gerber H-P, Malik AK, Solar GP, Sherman D, Liang XH, Meng G, et al. VEGF regulates haematopoietic stem cell survival by an internal autocrine loop mechanism. Nature 2002;417:954–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Robinson N, Hall G, Fawcett W. How to Survive in Anaesthesia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Pointcheval D, Mu Y, Chen K, editors. Cryptology and Network Security: 5th International Conference, CANS 2006, Suzhou, China, December 8-10, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 4301. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fogarolli A, Ronchetti M. Discovering Semantics in Multimedia Content Using Wikipedia. In: Abramowicz W, Fensel D, editors. Business Information Systems: 11th International Conference, BIS 2008, Innsbruck, Austria, May 5-7, 2008. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 48–57.

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]

Andrew E. Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation of Photon Over 25 Kilometers. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-achieve-quantum-teleportation-photon-over-25-kilometers/ (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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA Has Made Some Progress in Implementation, but Delays Threaten to Impact Costs and Benefits. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Peterson K. Development of a facility-specific dietary training program for diet technicians. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Leland J. Immersed in Scores, Concerts and Classes. New York Times 2016:MB2.

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