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

Stone R. EASTERN EUROPE: Serbian University Law Causes Turmoil. Science. 2000 Oct 27;290(5492):691.

A journal article with 2 authors

Menezes T, Roth C. Symbolic regression of generative network models. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep 5;4:6284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittlinger M, Wehner R, Wolf H. The ant odometer: stepping on stilts and stumps. Science. 2006 Jun 30;312(5782):1965–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang H, Liu CX, Gazibegovic S, Xu D, Logan JA, Wang G, et al. Quantized Majorana conductance. Nature. 2018 Apr 5;556(7699):74–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM. The Controller’s Function. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Cloete N, Maassen P, Fehnel R, Moja T, Gibbon T, Perold H, editors. Transformation in Higher Education: Global Pressures and Local Realities. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. XII, 322 p. (Higher Education Dynamics; vol. 10).

A chapter in an edited book

Krantz SG, Parks HR. Dynamical Systems. In: Parks HR, editor. A Mathematical Odyssey: Journey from the Real to the Complex. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014. p. 81–110.

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

Andrews R. Beijing Confirms That Climate Change Is Not A Chinese Hoax After All. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Government Computer Acquisition Practices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Sep. Report No.: B-115369.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harvey T. The Box [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

Vecsey G. Pond or Rink, Rangers Create Their Own Winter Classic. New York Times. 2011 Jan 7;B15.

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