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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental and Toxicologic 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

Watanabe, M., 2004. Material gains. Nature 432, 532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rutherford, A.W., Boussac, A., 2004. Biochemistry. Water photolysis in biology. Science 303, 1782–1784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pertsinidis, A., Zhang, Y., Chu, S., 2010. Subnanometre single-molecule localization, registration and distance measurements. Nature 466, 647–651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fernández, Á.F., Sebti, S., Wei, Y., Zou, Z., Shi, M., McMillan, K.L., He, C., Ting, T., Liu, Y., Chiang, W.-C., Marciano, D.K., Schiattarella, G.G., Bhagat, G., Moe, O.W., Hu, M.C., Levine, B., 2018. Author Correction: Disruption of the beclin 1-BCL2 autophagy regulatory complex promotes longevity in mice. Nature 561, E30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vitetta, G.M., Taylor, D.P., Colavolpe, G., Pancaldi, F., Martin, P.A., 2013. Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Abdulla, R.-I. (Ed.), 2011. Heart Diseases in Children: A Pediatrician’s Guide. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Goczyła, K., Waloszek, W., Zawadzka, T., Zawadzki, M., 2008. Processing and Querying Description Logic Ontologies Using Cartographic Approach, in: Cotta, C., Reich, S., Schaefer, R., Ligęza, A. (Eds.), Knowledge-Driven Computing: Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Computations, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 63–80.

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 Toxicologic Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Photo from NASA’s New Horizon Shows a “Heart” on Pluto [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, 2014. NASA: Actions Needed to Improve Transparency and Assess Long-Term Affordability of Human Exploration Programs (No. GAO-14-385). 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

Douville, S., 2014. The lived experience of being a European wife to a U.S. Marine: A heuristic study (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Perot Stresses Homey Image, But the Image Is No Accident. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watanabe, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Rutherford and Boussac, 2004; Watanabe, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rutherford and Boussac, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Fernández et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology
Abbreviation	Exp. Toxicol. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0940-2993
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine Toxicology