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

Lester B. 2007 visualization challenge winners. Science. 2007 Sep 28;317(5846):1858–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stefankiewicz AR, Sanders JKM. Chemistry. Harmony of the self-assembled spheres. Science. 2010 May 28;328(5982):1115–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moellering ER, Muthan B, Benning C. Freezing tolerance in plants requires lipid remodeling at the outer chloroplast membrane. Science. 2010 Oct 8;330(6001):226–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Reibold M, Paufler P, Levin AA, Kochmann W, Pätzke N, Meyer DC. Materials: carbon nanotubes in an ancient Damascus sabre. Nature. 2006 Nov 16;444(7117):286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young GC. Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Conversion Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Blaschke C, Shatkay H, editors. Linking Literature, Information, and Knowledge for Biology: Workshop of the BioLink Special Interest Group, ISMB/ECCB 2009, Stockholm, June 28-29, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XII, 81 p. 10 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6004).

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang Y, Panangadan A, Prasanna VK. FP-CPNNQ: A Filter-Based Protocol for Continuous Probabilistic Nearest Neighbor Query. In: Renz M, Shahabi C, Zhou X, Cheema MA, editors. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 20th International Conference, DASFAA 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 57–73. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Hale T. Would You Wear An Engagement Ring Made Out Of Your Fiance’s Wisdom Tooth? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/forget-diamonds-engagement-ring-made-out-wisdom-tooth/

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. Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Other Industry Trends. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Aug. Report No.: GAO-07-291R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanabria A. Root Metaphor [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana 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

Wines M. Anger Follows an Accusation of Voter Fraud. New York Times. 2017 Sep 10;A16.

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