How to format your references using the Histopathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Histopathology. 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

Van Duyne RP. Physics. Molecular plasmonics. Science 2004; 306; 985-986.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mulch A, Chamberlain CP. Earth science: the rise and growth of Tibet. Nature 2006; 439; 670-671.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ross RJ, Weiner MM, Lin H. PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs in the soma. Nature 2014; 505; 353-359.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Sherbinin A, Castro M, Gemenne F, et al. Climate change. Preparing for resettlement associated with climate change. Science 2011; 334; 456-457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

English JF. The Global Future of English Studies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Homma I, Onimaru H, Fukuchi Y, eds. New Frontiers in Respiratory Control: XIth Annual Oxford Conference on Modeling and Control of Breathing. Vol 669. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Hofhauser A, Steger C, Navab N. Edge-Based Template Matching and Tracking for Perspectively Distorted Planar Objects. In Bebis G, Boyle R, Parvin B et al., eds. Advances in Visual Computing: 4th International Symposium, ISVC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 1-3, 2008. Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008; 35-44.

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 Histopathology.

Blog post

Davis J. Pig-Like ‘Bacon Turtle’ Swam The Ancient Waterways Of Utah. IFLScience.

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. Unmanned Carrier-Based Aircraft System: Debate over System’s Role Led to Focus on Aerial Refueling. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kalinec-Craig C. A case study of four Latina/o pre-service teachers in learning to teach mathematics for understanding and integrate a child’s out-of-school mathematical knowledge and experiences. 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

Detrick B. Busy P Surveys the Paris Party Scene He Defined. New York Times. May 23, 2017:D6.

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	Histopathology
Abbreviation	Histopathology
ISSN (print)	0309-0167
ISSN (online)	1365-2559
Scope	General Medicine Histology Pathology and Forensic Medicine