How to format your references using the Human Pathology: Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Pathology: Case Reports. 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]

M. Stewart, Structural biology. Nuclear trafficking, Science 302 (2003) 1513–1514.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Grüter, C.-C. Carbon, Neuroscience. Escaping attention, Science 328 (2010) 435–436.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Sagy, Z. Reches, J. Fineberg, Dynamic fracture by large extraterrestrial impacts as the origin of shatter cones, Nature 418 (2002) 310–313.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Hu, J. Tang, H. Zhong, Z. Xi, C. Chen, Q. Chen, Invisible photonic printing: computer designing graphics, UV printing and shown by a magnetic field, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1484.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.I. Papadimitriou, P.A. Tsimoulas, M.S. Obaidat, A.S. Pomportsis, Multiwavelength Optical LANs, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

P. Flaschel, Topics in Applied Macrodynamic Theory, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.S. Heiduk, Y. Zhu, The Process of Economic Integration in ASEAN + 3: From Free Trade Area to Monetary Cooperation or Vice Versa?, in: P.J.J. Welfens, C. Ryan, S. Chirathivat, F. Knipping (Eds.), EU - Asean: Facing Economic Globalisation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 73–95.

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: Case Reports.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Australia To Cut Welfare Payments For Anti-Vaxxers, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/australia-make-welfare-payments-dependent-vaccination/ (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, The Federal Wind Energy Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.R. Fortenbery, Regulation of Natural Killer Cells: SHIP-1, 2B4, and Immunomodulation by Lenalidomide, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 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]

J. Herrman, Online platforms annexed much of our public sphere, playacting as little democracies — until extremists made them reveal their true nature, New York Times (2017) MM18.

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: Case Reports
Abbreviation	Hum. Pathol. (N. Y.)
ISSN (print)	2214-3300
Scope