How to format your references using the Experimental and Molecular Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental and Molecular 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	Download the output style file
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

Keller, U., 2003. Recent developments in compact ultrafast lasers. Nature 424, 831–838.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin, Y., Zhang, Z., 2014. Controlling the efficiency of trapping in a scale-free small-world network. Sci. Rep. 4, 6274.

A journal article with 3 authors

Andreae, M.O., Jones, C.D., Cox, P.M., 2005. Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future. Nature 435, 1187–1190.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kash, T.L., Jenkins, A., Kelley, J.C., Trudell, J.R., Harrison, N.L., 2003. Coupling of agonist binding to channel gating in the GABA(A) receptor. Nature 421, 272–275.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuehni, R.G., 2004. Color. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chen, R.F., Eisenkraft, A., Fortus, D., Krajcik, J., Neumann, K., Nordine, J., Scheff, A. (Eds.), 2014. Teaching and Learning of Energy in K – 12 Education. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebert, C., Dumke, R., 2007. Planning the Measurement Process, in: Dumke, R. (Ed.), Software Measurement: Establish — Extract — Evaluate — Execute. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 73–90.

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 Experimental and Molecular Pathology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Titan’s Ocean is as Salty as the Dead Sea [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2004. Special Education: Improved Timeliness and Better Use of Enforcement Actions Could Strengthen Education’s Monitoring System (No. GAO-04-879). 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

Strand, K., 2014. Applying Public Relations Theory to Assess Service-Learning Relationships (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Baker, P., Shear, M.D., 2017. Vowing Again to Attack Opioids, Trump Faults Obama. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Keller, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Keller, 2003; Lin and Zhang, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lin and Zhang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kash et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental and Molecular Pathology
Abbreviation	Exp. Mol. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0014-4800
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology Pathology and Forensic Medicine