How to format your references using the Journal of Comparative Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Comparative 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

Linder P. (2004) Molecular biology. The life of RNA with proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304, 694–695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayraktar OA, Doe CQ. (2013) Combinatorial temporal patterning in progenitors expands neural diversity. Nature, 498, 449–455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peumans P, Uchida S, Forrest SR. (2003) Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using small-molecular-weight organic thin films. Nature, 425, 158–162.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Zhang J, Liu X, Blume R, Zhang A, Schlögl R et al. (2008) Surface-modified carbon nanotubes catalyze oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322, 73–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tyson H. (2010) Microsoft® Word 2010 Bible. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Meusburger P, Gregory D, Suarsana L (Eds.). (2015) Geographies of Knowledge and Power. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Tempelmeier T. (2012) Teaching ‘Concepts of Programming Languages’ with Ada. In: Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2012: 17th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-15, 2012. Proceedings, M Brorsson, LM Pinho, Eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 60–74.

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 Journal of Comparative Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2015) 9,000-Year-Old Case Of Ritualistic Beheading That May Be Oldest In Americas. 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. (2005) Data Mining: Agencies Have Taken Key Steps to Protect Privacy in Selected Efforts, but Significant Compliance Issues Remain. No. GAO-05-866. 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

Bavkar IN. (2017) In-Node Vehicle Classification and IdentificationDoctoral 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

Corkery M. (2017) In Rare Move, Google Imposes New Limits on Addiction Treatment Ads. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linder, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Linder, 2004; Bayraktar and Doe, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bayraktar and Doe, 2013)
Three authors: (Peumans et al., 2003)
Four or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Comparative Pathology
ISSN (print)	0021-9975
ISSN (online)	1532-3129
Scope