How to format your references using the Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology. 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

Olivier NB. Structural biology: Ribosome revelations. Nature. 2014;513(7519):491-492.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hosten O, Kwiat P. Observation of the spin hall effect of light via weak measurements. Science. 2008;319(5864):787-790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tingley MW, Estes LD, Wilcove DS. Ecosystems: climate change must not blow conservation off course. Nature. 2013;500(7462):271-272.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Petersen KF, Befroy D, Dufour S, et al. Mitochondrial dysfunction in the elderly: possible role in insulin resistance. Science. 2003;300(5622):1140-1142.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris SA. Food and Package Engineering. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Derksen H. Computational Invariant Theory. 2nd ed. 2015. (Kemper G, ed.). Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Alotaibi KD, Schoenau JJ. Biofuel Production Byproducts as Soil Amendments. In: Lichtfouse E, ed. Organic Fertilisation, Soil Quality and Human Health. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Springer Netherlands; 2012:67-91.

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 the American Society of Cytopathology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Hubble In Pictures: Astronomers’ Top Picks. IFLScience. April 27, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-pictures-astronomers-top-picks/

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. FAA Computer Systems: Limited Progress on Year 2000 Issue Increases Risk Dramatically. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Talice KW. An Assessment of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Leadership Competencies. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2017.

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

Kenigsberg B. Kekszakallu. New York Times. July 20, 2017:C9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology
Abbreviation	J. Am. Soc. Cytopathol.
ISSN (print)	2213-2945
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine