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

Ruse M. Perceptions in science. Is evolution a secular religion? Science. 2003 Mar;299(5612):1523–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gowers T, Nielsen M. Massively collaborative mathematics. Nature. 2009 Oct;461(7266):879–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Polanen V, Bergmann Tiest WM, Kappers AML. Target contact and exploration strategies in haptic search. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep;4:6254.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Edwards SL, Brough R, Lord CJ, Natrajan R, Vatcheva R, Levine DA, et al. Resistance to therapy caused by intragenic deletion in BRCA2. Nature. 2008 Feb;451(7182):1111–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lachin JM. Biostatistical Methods: The Assessment of Relative Risks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Hakeem FB. Policing Muslim Communities: Comparative International Context. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Alvermann DE, Mallozzi CA. Moving Beyond the Gold Standard: Epistemological and Ontological Considerations of Research in Science Literacy. In: Shelley MC, Yore LD, Hand B, editors. Quality Research in Literacy and Science Education: International Perspectives and Gold Standards. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009; pp 63–81.

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

Hale T. Geminid Meteor Shower Will Peak Tonight, But The Supermoon Might Outshine It [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Dec

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 Security: Progress Being Made, but Long-term Attention Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fay JE. California employer perspectives on older working adults specific to the Affordable Care Act health insurance mandate. 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

Alvarez L, Santora M. 25 Years Later, the Hard Lessons of Hurricane Andrew Still Guide Florida. New York Times. 2017 Sep;A14.

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