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]

Fuyuno I. Plastic promises. Nature 2007;446:715.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Barrangou R, Klaenhammer TR. Microbiology: Bacteria get vaccinated. Nature 2014;513:175–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Discher DE, Mooney DJ, Zandstra PW. Growth factors, matrices, and forces combine and control stem cells. Science 2009;324:1673–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang S, Dong H, Hou W, Jiang H, Huang Q, Briggs BR, et al. Greater temporal changes of sediment microbial community than its waterborne counterpart in Tengchong hot springs, Yunnan Province, China. Sci Rep 2014;4:7479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Liu HH. Oracle Database Performance and Scalability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

D’Atri A, De Marco M, Braccini AM, Cabiddu F, editors. Management of the Interconnected World: ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lane ND, Lu H, Eisenman SB, Campbell AT. Cooperative Techniques Supporting Sensor-Based People-Centric Inferencing. In: Indulska J, Patterson DJ, Rodden T, Ott M, editors. Pervasive Computing: 6th International Conference, Pervasive 2008 Sydney, Australia, May 19-22, 2008 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 75–92.

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]

Taub B. Could Ketamine Be Used To Treat Depression? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/could-ketamine-be-used-treat-depression/ (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. Special Education: Improved Timeliness and Better Use of Enforcement Actions Could Strengthen Education’s Monitoring System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stitt CR. Differences in theoretical constructs of processing health information in narrative entertainment television messages. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2008.

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]

Vecsey G. U.S. Shares the Blame for Feeling Cheated. New York Times 2010:D2.

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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