How to format your references using the Journal of Comparative Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Comparative 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

Ball P. (2015) Publishing: The journal that publishes no papers. Nature, 526, 146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ravi M, Chan SWL. (2010) Haploid plants produced by centromere-mediated genome elimination. Nature, 464, 615–618.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hasty J, McMillen D, Collins JJ. (2002) Engineered gene circuits. Nature, 420, 224–230.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Frankland PW, O’Brien C, Ohno M, Kirkwood A, Silva AJ. (2001) Alpha-CaMKII-dependent plasticity in the cortex is required for permanent memory. Nature, 411, 309–313.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Denison E, Ren GY. (2014) Luke Him Sau Architect. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lambrechts J. (2016) Microsensing Networks for Sustainable Cities, S Sinha, Ed., 1st ed. 2016 Edit. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Iseki K, Hanakawa T. (2013) PET/SPECT Imaging During Dynamic Motor Control. In: Neuroimaging of Movement Disorders, FB Nahab, N Hattori, Eds., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 59–69.

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 Journal of Comparative Pathology.

Blog post

Davis J. (2015) Evidence Of Earliest Ritualized Decapitation In The Americas Discovered. IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office. (1994) Highway Contracting: Disadvantaged Business Program Meets Contract Goal, but Refinements Are Needed. No. RCED-94-168. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sparks GA. (2008) Charismatic leadership: An exploratory investigation of the techniques of influenceDoctoral dissertation, Capella University.

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

Kelly M. (1994) The President’s Past. New York Times, 620.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ball, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ravi and Chan, 2010; Ball, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Ravi and Chan, 2010)
Three authors: (Hasty et al., 2002)
Four or more authors: (Frankland et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Comparative Pathology
ISSN (print)	0021-9975
ISSN (online)	1532-3129
Scope