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

Trounson A. (2009) Obituary: Xiangzhong (Jerry) Yang (1959-2009). Nature, 458, 161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mercer JM, Roth VL. (2003) The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299, 1568–1572.

A journal article with 3 authors

Advani MJ, Rajagopalan M, Reddy PH. (2014) Calmodulin-like protein from M. tuberculosis H37Rv is required during infection. Scientific reports, 4, 6861.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Ng HT, Li J, Smith MK, Nguyen P, Cassell A et al. (2003) Growth of epitaxial nanowires at the junctions of nanowalls. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300, 1249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Villalta T. (2012) The Large-Cap Portfolio. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dössel O, Schlegel WC (Eds.). (2009) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/1 Radiation Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Schillat M. (2016) Adventure Tourism Poses New Challenges for the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO). In: Tourism in Antarctica: A Multidisciplinary View of New Activities Carried Out on the White Continent, M Jensen, M Vereda, RA Sánchez, R Roura, Eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–74.

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

Fang J. (2015) Peekaboo! Dwarf Goats Have Object Permanence Too. 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. (2000) Early Education and Care: Overlap Indicates Need to Assess Crosscutting Programs. No. HEHS-00-78. 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

Ho CW. (2012) Music genre on the move: Discourse and the cultural production of Japanese visual rock in Hong KongDoctoral dissertation, Indiana 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 HC. (2003) Terrorism and the Biology Lab. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trounson, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mercer and Roth, 2003; Trounson, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Mercer and Roth, 2003)
Three authors: (Advani et al., 2014)
Four or more authors: (Ng et al., 2003)

About the journal

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