How to format your references using the Pathogenesis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pathogenesis. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Portman ME. You’ll be OK. Science 2015;348:1282.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Salehi-Ashtiani K, Szostak JW. In vitro evolution suggests multiple origins for the hammerhead ribozyme. Nature 2001;414:82–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gadsby DC, Vergani P, Csanády L. The ABC protein turned chloride channel whose failure causes cystic fibrosis. Nature 2006;440:477–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xia J, Zhang Y, Qian J, Zhu X, Zhang Y, Zhang J, et al. Isolation, identification and expression of specific human CD133 antibodies. Sci Rep 2013;3:3320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Canham J, Bennett J. Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Rashid A, Ossher H, editors. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development V. vol. 5490. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Raad B, De Georgia M. Perspectives and Approach to Stroke Prevention and Therapy. In: Corrigan ML, Escuro AA, Kirby DF, editors. Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Stroke, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013, p. 47–60.

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 Pathogenesis.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Giant Planet In Baby Stellar System Hints At Unusual Planet Formation. IFLScience 2017.

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. Aviation Security: Posting Notices at Domestic Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Belknap BM. Fostering Resilience in Beginning Special Education Teachers. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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]

Hollander S. Adaptive Sports Stoke the Competitive Spirit. New York Times 2002:D8.

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	Pathogenesis
ISSN (print)	2214-6636
Scope

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