How to format your references using the Current Pathobiology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pathobiology Reports. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smaglik P (2002) Building the triangle: North Carolina. Nature 416:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Cowen LE, Lindquist S (2005) Hsp90 potentiates the rapid evolution of new traits: drug resistance in diverse fungi. Science 309:2185–2189

A journal article with 3 authors

Piras V, Tomita M, Selvarajoo K (2014) Transcriptome-wide variability in single embryonic development cells. Sci Rep 4:7137

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sugimoto J, Sugimoto M, Bernstein H, et al (2013) A novel human endogenous retroviral protein inhibits cell-cell fusion. Sci Rep 3:1462

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eynon J (2013) The Design Manager’s Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Stefanović D (2008) Structured Analog CMOS Design. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

McCarthy B, Varakliotis S, Edwards C, Roedig U (2010) Deploying Wireless Sensor Networking Technology in a Rescue Team Context. In: Marron PJ, Voigt T, Corke P, Mottola L (eds) Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks: 4th International Workshop, REALWSN 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 16-17, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–48

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 Current Pathobiology Reports.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) This Is How Often Iceland Will Cover Europe In A Volcanic Ash Cloud. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/iceland-cover-europe-volcanic-ash-cloud/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1996) Aviation Security: Immediate Action Needed to Improve Security. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez SG (2010) Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2010) When Loss Means Disappointment, Not Disaster. New York Times D2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Current Pathobiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Pathobiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-485X
Scope