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

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

Corbyn Z. Prevention: lessons from a sunburnt country. Nature 2014; 515: S114-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Ringler P, Schulz GE. Self-assembly of proteins into designed networks. Science 2003; 302: 106-109

A journal article with 3 authors

von Caemmerer S, Quick WP, Furbank RT. The development of C₄rice: current progress and future challenges. Science 2012; 336: 1671-1672

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kitajima TS, Sakuno T, Ishiguro K-I, et al. Shugoshin collaborates with protein phosphatase 2A to protect cohesin. Nature 2006; 441: 46-52

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells AR, Chiang K. Monetizing Your Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Zamojski W, Kacprzyk J, Mazurkiewicz J, et al., eds. Dependable Computer Systems. Vol 97. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Davis B, Iqbal AA, Funk A, et al. RoundTrip Ontology Authoring. In Sheth A, Staab S, Dean M et al., eds. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008: 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008; 50-65.

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 The Journal of Pathology.

Blog post

Davis J. August Ties With July As The Hottest Month Ever Recorded. 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. Social Research and Development of Limited Use to National Policymakers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fearrington ND. The relationship between fathers’ pre -natal involvement with the mother and post -natal involvement with the child(ren). 2008

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

Greenhouse L. Court Weighs Right to Guns, And Its Limits. New York Times. March 19, 2008:A1.

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	The Journal of Pathology
Abbreviation	J. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3417
ISSN (online)	1096-9896
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine