How to format your references using the The American Journal of Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The American Journal of Pathology. 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

Macilwain C: Livermore plans radical rescue for “mismanaged” laser facility. Nature 2000, 403:469–470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratnieks FLW, Carreck NL: Ecology. Clarity on honey bee collapse? Science 2010, 327:152–153.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barkeshli M, Berg E, Kivelson S: Coherent transmutation of electrons into fractionalized anyons. Science 2014, 346:722–725.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Brönnimann S, Luterbacher J, Staehelin J, Svendby TM, Hansen G, Svenøe T: Extreme climate of the global troposphere and stratosphere in 1940-42 related to El Niño. Nature 2004, 431:971–974.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stidwill D, Fletcher R: Normal Binocular Vision. West Sussex, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010, .

An edited book

Chan KW, Raney RB, editors: Pediatric Oncology. Boston, MA, Springer US, 2005, .

A chapter in an edited book

Roli A, Manfroni M, Pinciroli C, Birattari M: On the Design of Boolean Network Robots. In: Chio CD, Cagnoni S, Cotta C, Ebner M, Ekárt A, Esparcia-Alcázar AI, Merelo JJ, Neri F, Preuss M, Richter H, Togelius J, Yannakakis GN, editors. Applications of Evolutionary Computation: EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Torino, Italy, April 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2011, pp. 43–52.

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 The American Journal of Pathology.

Blog post

Luntz S: Hawaiian Islands Were Losing Species Millions Of Years Before Humans Arrived. IFLScience., IFLScience, 2017, .

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

Government Accountability Office: Naval Safety School Relocation: More Credible Cost Analysis Is Needed. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-91-145.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Joseph FB: Adsorption and Transformation of Selenium from Elemental Selenium Nanoparticles by Pseudomonas fuscovaginae [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL], Southern Illinois University, 2017, .

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

Grynbaum MM, Herrman J: Breitbart Gains Voice in White House. New York Times 2016, :B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The American Journal of Pathology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0002-9440
ISSN (online)	1525-2191
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine