How to format your references using the Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology. 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 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

ECOLOGY. Adrift in an ocean of change.

Vogt M.

Science. 2015 ; 350(6267) : 1466–8.

PMID 26680177

A journal article with 2 authors

Engineering stability in gene networks by autoregulation.

Becskei A, Serrano L.

Nature. 2000 ; 405(6786) : 590–3.

PMID 10850721

A journal article with 3 authors

A dusty torus around the luminous young star LkH alpha101.

Tuthill PG, Monnier JD, Danchi WC.

Nature. 2001 ; 409(6823) : 1012–4.

PMID 11234003

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tunable nonlocal spin control in a coupled-quantum dot system.

Craig NJ, Taylor JM, Lester EA, Marcus CM, Hanson MP, Gossard AC.

Science. 2004 ; 304(5670) : 565–7.

PMID 15044752

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mathematical Foundations for Linear Circuits and Systems in Engineering.

Shynk JJ.

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016

An edited book

Density Functionals: Thermochemistry.

Johnson ER, editor.

vol. 365. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015

A chapter in an edited book

Phrenology And Danish Romanticism.

Jacobsen AS.

In: Brain RM, Cohen RS, Knudsen O, editors. Hans Christian Ørsted And The Romantic Legacy In Science: Ideas, Disciplines, Practices, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 55–74

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 Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology.

Blog post

The Strangest Animals You’ve Never Heard Of.

Andrew E.

IFLScience. 2014.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strangest-animals-youve-never-heard/ (accessed October 30, 2018)

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

China: U.S. Universities in China Emphasize Academic Freedom but Face Internet Censorship and Other Challenges.

Government Accountability Office.

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

The role of interleukin-19 in interleukin-10 production by regulatory macrophages.

Yahil RJ.

The role of interleukin-19 in interleukin-10 production by regulatory macrophages. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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

Reminiscing About a Woman With Quirks as Well as Causes.

Crow K.

New York Times. 2002 : 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogt, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Becskei and Serrano, 2000; Vogt, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Becskei and Serrano, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Craig et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
Abbreviation	Atlas Genet. Cytogenet. Oncol. Haematol.
ISSN (online)	1768-3262
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