How to format your references using the Pathologie Biologie citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pathologie Biologie. 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]

McCammon C. Geophysics. Deep diamond mysteries. Science 2001;293:813–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Giovannoni SJ, Stingl U. Molecular diversity and ecology of microbial plankton. Nature 2005;437:343–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kushiro T, Nambara E, McCourt P. Hormone evolution: The key to signalling. Nature 2003;422:122.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chakrabarty D, Morgan EH, Muno MP, Galloway DK, Wijnands R, Van Der Klis M, et al. Nuclear-powered millisecond pulsars and the maximum spin frequency of neutron stars. Nature 2003;424:42–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hahn-Deinstrop E. Dünnschicht-Chromatographie. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Spinoglio G, editor. Robotic Surgery: Current Applications and New Trends. Milano: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gonçalves I, Silva S, Fonseca CM. On the Generalization Ability of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming. In: Machado P, Heywood MI, McDermott J, Castelli M, García-Sánchez P, Burelli P, et al., editors. Genetic Programming: 18th European Conference, EuroGP 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 41–52.

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 Pathologie Biologie.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. How Far Off Is A Blood Test For Alzheimer’s Disease? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-far-off-is-a-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease/ (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. School Finance: Per-Pupil Spending Differences between Selected Inner City and Suburban Schools Varied by Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Golf F. Search for New Physics in a Final State with Same-Sign Dileptons, Jets, and Missing Transverse Energy at 7 TeV Center of Mass Energy. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 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]

Branch J. The Science Behind the Squeak. New York Times 2017:D1.

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	Pathologie Biologie
ISSN (print)	0369-8114
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