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]

P.H. Seeberger, Exploring life’s sweet spot, Nature 437 (2005) 1239.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Rez, M.M.J. Treacy, Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations, Nature 503 (2013) E1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.E. Willner, J. Wang, H. Huang, Applied physics. A different angle on light communications, Science 337 (2012) 655–656.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Klussmann, H. Iwamura, S.P. Mathew, D.H. Wells Jr, U. Pandya, A. Armstrong, D.G. Blackmond, Thermodynamic control of asymmetric amplification in amino acid catalysis, Nature 441 (2006) 621–623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Stokes, A Practical Guide to the Wiring Regulations, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

E. Lichtfouse, ed., Farming for Food and Water Security, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Bowers, J. Cannon-Bowers, T. Hussain, Considering User Knowledge in the Evaluation of Training System Usability, in: M. Kurosu (Ed.), Human Centered Design: First International Conference, HCD 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 27–30.

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]

E. Andrew, Amazing Timelapse Of Asperatus Clouds Reminds Us That Clouds Can Act As A Fluid Too!, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/amazing-timelapse-asperatus-clouds-reminds-us-clouds-can-act-fluid-too/ (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, Sanitary Conditions in Selected Food Industries, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Vincent, Viewing Dissociative Identity Disorder through a Jungian lens, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

G. Gurley, A Wealth of Ideas, New York Times (2014) E1.

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