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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Korean 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	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

Fontana W. Chemistry. Pulling strings. Science. 2006 Dec 8;314(5805):1552–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Paul WE, Mage RG. Elvin A. Kabat (1914-2000). Nature. 2000 Sep 21;407(6802):316.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irwin DE, Bensch S, Price TD. Speciation in a ring. Nature. 2001 Jan 18;409(6818):333–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Akturk A, Wasilko DJ, Wu X, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Qiu J, et al. Mechanism of phosphoribosyl-ubiquitination mediated by a single Legionella effector. Nature. 2018 May;557(7707):729–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartley J. Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Dritschel MA, editor. The Extended Field of Operator Theory. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2007. XXVI, 388 p. (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications; vol. 171).

A chapter in an edited book

McCarthy JM, Soh GS. Planar Kinematics. In: Soh GS, editor. Geometric Design of Linkages. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 75–92. (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics).

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 Korean Journal of Pathology.

Blog post

Hale T. A Crazy Number Of Kids Are Getting Sick From Drinking Hand Sanitizers. 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. Highway Safety: Federal and State Efforts Related to Accidents That Involve Non-Commercial Vehicles Carrying Unsecured Loads. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Nov. Report No.: GAO-13-24.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Medina LM. Living with Global Shocks: Examining the Responses of Firms and Governments [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. Chandeliers. New York Times. 2016 Oct 21;RE13.

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 Korean Journal of Pathology
Abbreviation	Korean J. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1738-1843
ISSN (online)	2092-8920
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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