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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

L. Lederman, The pleasure of learning, Nature 430 (2004) 617.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.-L. Casanova, L. Abel, Primary immunodeficiencies: a field in its infancy, Science 317 (2007) 617–619.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. McElwain, J. Wade-Murphy, S.P. Hesselbo, Changes in carbon dioxide during an oceanic anoxic event linked to intrusion into Gondwana coals, Nature 435 (2005) 479–482.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Yang, Y.L. Zhao, Y. Tong, Z.B. Jiao, J. Wei, J.X. Cai, X.D. Han, D. Chen, A. Hu, J.J. Kai, K. Lu, Y. Liu, C.T. Liu, Multicomponent intermetallic nanoparticles and superb mechanical behaviors of complex alloys, Science 362 (2018) 933–937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Vogel, H. Kalb, Large-Scale Solar Thermal Power, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

G.A. Urban, ed., BioMEMS, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.Y. Mulkidjanian, Abiotic Photosynthesis, in: M. Gargaud, W.M. Irvine, R. Amils, H.J. (jim) Cleaves, D.L. Pinti, J.C. Quintanilla, D. Rouan, T. Spohn, S. Tirard, M. Viso (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 26–28.

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]

J. Davis, Lions Roam Rwanda Again After a 15-Year Absence, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lions-roam-rwanda-again-after-15-year-absence/ (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, Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.Y. Mace, Rupturing the “reality” of reality TV: Contemporary video artists examining the discursive effects of the reality TV phenomenon, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, Russia: Abortion Restrictions Signed, New York Times (2011) A5.

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
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