How to format your references using the Acta Cytologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Cytologica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Hoag H. Ontario. Nature. 2005 Mar;434(7033):676–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goncharenko I, Loubeyre P. Neutron and X-ray diffraction study of the broken symmetry phase transition in solid deuterium. Nature. 2005 Jun;435(7046):1206–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reiserer A, Ritter S, Rempe G. Nondestructive detection of an optical photon. Science. 2013 Dec;342(6164):1349–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hsieh C-H, Reiss CS, Hunter JR, Beddington JR, May RM, Sugihara G. Fishing elevates variability in the abundance of exploited species. Nature. 2006 Oct;443(7113):859–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Münch V. Patente, Marken, Design von A bis Z. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2009.

An edited book

Lee R, editor. Applied Computing & Information Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Capano G, Regini M, Turri M. Autonomy and Funding: The Reforms of the Late 1980s to the Mid-1990s. In: Regini M, Turri M, editors. Changing Governance in Universities: Italian Higher Education in Comparative Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016; pp 65–79.

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 Acta Cytologica.

Blog post

Andrew E. Are We Eating Too Much Arsenic? We Need Better Tests To Know [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-we-eating-too-much-arsenic-we-need-better-tests-know/

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. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Risk-Based Oversight for Repair Stations Could Benefit from Additional Airline Data and Performance Metrics [Reissued on September 2, 2016]. 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

Penney G. Executive Fire Officers’ strategic thinking capabilities and their relationship with information and communication technology. 2010

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

Crow K. Old Wish List: More for Pupils; New List: Keep What We Have. New York Times. 2002 Jan;146.

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	Acta Cytologica
Abbreviation	Acta Cytol.
ISSN (print)	0001-5547
ISSN (online)	1938-2650
Scope	General Medicine Histology Pathology and Forensic Medicine