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

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

Lyons TW. Ocean science. Ironing out ocean chemistry at the dawn of animal life. Science. 2008 Aug 15;321(5891):923–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silberzahn R, Uhlmann EL. Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work. Nature. 2015 Oct 8;526(7572):189–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alapan Y, Little JA, Gurkan UA. Heterogeneous red blood cell adhesion and deformability in sickle cell disease. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 24;4:7173.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Feely RA, Sabine CL, Lee K, Berelson W, Kleypas J, Fabry VJ, et al. Impact of anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 system in the oceans. Science. 2004 Jul 16;305(5682):362–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balfour A. Solomon’s Temple. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Casasús I, Rogošiç J, Rosati A, Štokoviç I, Gabiña D, editors. Animal farming and environmental interactions in the Mediterranean region. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers; 2012. Approx. 280 p. 119 illus. (EAAP – European Federation of Animal Sciences; vol. 131).

A chapter in an edited book

Davis AB. Effective Propagation Kernels in Structured Media with Broad Spatial Correlations, Illustration with Large-Scale Transport of Solar Photons Through Cloudy Atmospheres. In: Graziani F, editor. Computational Methods in Transport: Granlibakken 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 85–140. (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering).

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 Malaysian Journal of Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Shift Work Causes Breast Cancer In Mice, According To A New Study – So What Does This Mean For Humans? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. FCC: Maritime Communications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Aug. Report No.: OGC-98-66.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alnuaimi AN. The Outside-In Method for Sustainable Design Within the Built Environment Spatial Layers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

Greenhouse L. New Leader, Tough Issues for Court in Transition. New York Times. 2005 Sep 30;A1.

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 Malaysian Journal of Pathology
ISSN (print)	0126-8635
Scope