How to format your references using the Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. 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

[1]

W.K. Hartmann, The paradigm and the pendulum, Nature 404 (2000) 817.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.M. Hu, L.L. Cowie, High-redshift galaxy populations, Nature 440 (2006) 1145–1150.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.R. Krumholz, C.F. McKee, R.I. Klein, The formation of stars by gravitational collapse rather than competitive accretion, Nature 438 (2005) 332–334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Qin, X. Tan, Y. Jiao, L. Liu, W. Zhao, S. Yang, A. Jia, RNA-Seq-based transcriptome analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilm inhibition by ursolic acid and resveratrol, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.L. Peterson, Trading on Sentiment, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

A. Gullo, ed., Anaesthesia, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting - International Symposium on Critical Care Medicine, Springer, Milano, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Sharma, K.P. Shukla, V. Singh, J. Singh, S. Devi, A. Tewari, Plant–Microbe Symbiosis: Perspectives and Applications, in: N.K. Arora (Ed.), Plant Microbe Symbiosis: Fundamentals and Advances, Springer India, New Delhi, 2013: pp. 119–145.

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 Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, The US Government Share Of Science Funding Hits Record Low, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/us-government-share-science-funding-hits-record-low/ (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, Observations on the National School Lunch Program’s Assessment, Improvement, and Monitoring System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.C. Hau, Beliefs of nurse practitioner students toward testicular cancer and teaching testicular self-examinations, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

J. Goodman, Profiles in Caution, New York Times (2017) BR9.

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	Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
Abbreviation	Prog. Histochem. Cytochem.
ISSN (print)	0079-6336
Scope	Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Histology