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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Korean 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Doumbo OK. Global voices of science. It takes a village: medical research and ethics in Mali. Science. 2005 Feb 4;307(5710):679–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller B, Sheen J. Advances in cytokinin signaling. Science. 2007 Oct 5;318(5847):68–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Colombani J, Andersen DS, Léopold P. Secreted peptide Dilp8 coordinates Drosophila tissue growth with developmental timing. Science. 2012 May 4;336(6081):582–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hill JO, Wyatt HR, Reed GW, Peters JC. Obesity and the environment: where do we go from here? Science. 2003 Feb 7;299(5608):853–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman SH. ESD. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Ah-King M, editor. Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. VIII, 104 p. 1 illus. (Crossroads of Knowledge; vol. 1).

A chapter in an edited book

Banavar RN, Sankaranarayanan V. Switched Stabilization of a Hovercraft. In: Sankaranarayanan V, editor. Switched Finite Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 61–77. (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science).

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 Korean Journal of Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew D. How Our Autistic Ancestors Played An Important Role In Human Evolution [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-our-autistic-ancestors-played-an-important-role-in-human-evolution/

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. Outlay Savings From Program Reductions and Terminations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Apr. Report No.: 094540.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Negussie H. Integration of indigenous knowledge and cultural practices in early childhood care and education programs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: An exploratory case study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Novelist Faces Pornography Charge. New York Times. 2002 Jul 12;A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Korean Journal of Pathology
Abbreviation	Korean J. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1738-1843
ISSN (online)	2092-8920
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine