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]

Sharp T. Neuroscience. A new molecule to brighten the mood. Science 2006;311:45–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rabosky DL, Sorhannus U. Diversity dynamics of marine planktonic diatoms across the Cenozoic. Nature 2009;457:183–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lepper C, Conway SJ, Fan C-M. Adult satellite cells and embryonic muscle progenitors have distinct genetic requirements. Nature 2009;460:627–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Sano M, Kamino A, Okamura J, Shinkai S. Ring closure of carbon nanotubes. Science 2001;293:1299–301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pearce R, Barnes S. Raising Venture Capital. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Dössel O, Schlegel WC, editors. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/11 Biomedical Engineering for Audiology, Ophthalmology, Emergency & Dental Medicine. vol. 25/11. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Regenauer-Lieb K, Yuen DA. Multiscale Brittle-Ductile Coupling and Genesis of Slow Earthquakes. In: Tiampo KF, Weatherley DK, Weinstein SA, editors. Earthquakes: Simulations, Sources and Tsunamis, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2008, p. 523–43.

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]

Luntz S. Neanderthal Immunity Genes Helped Us Conquer The Planet. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neanderthal-immunity-genes-helped-us-conquer-the-planet/ (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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hsieh H-C. Self-access center and autonomous learning: EFL college students’ motivations, activities and perceptions of learning effectiveness. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2010.

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]

Greenhouse L. One Man, Two Courts. New York Times 2010:WK11.

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
Scope

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