How to format your references using the Chimerism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chimerism. 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

Ikeda SR. Signal transduction. Calcium channels--link locally, act globally. Science 2001; 294:318–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brooks T, Smith ML. Ecology. Caribbean catastrophes. Science 2001; 294:1469–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

Worthylake DK, Rossman KL, Sondek J. Crystal structure of Rac1 in complex with the guanine nucleotide exchange region of Tiam1. Nature 2000; 408:682–8.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lippert C, Quon G, Kang EY, Kadie CM, Listgarten J, Heckerman D. The benefits of selecting phenotype-specific variants for applications of mixed models in genomics. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1815.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jäger W, Marzahn G. Mauerwerk. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Kielanowski P, Bieliavsky P, Odzijewicz A, Schlichenmaier M, Voronov T, editors. Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXIII Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 29 – July 5, 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Blank W, Annema JT, Veseliç M, Rabe KF. Mediastinum. In: Mathis G, editor. Chest Sonography. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. page 115–39.

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 Chimerism.

Blog post

Hale T. Eye Movement-Controlled Robot Paints Masterpieces... Kind Of [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/eye-controlled-robot-paints-masterpieces-kind/

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. DOD Business Transformation: Air Force’s Current Approach Increases Risk That Asset Visibility Goals and Transformation Priorities Will Not Be Achieved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kargbo AH. An Approach to Dynamic Resource Allocation for Electric Power Disaster Response Management. 2019;

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

Murphy MJO. 20 Years Ago: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Reborn on TV. New York Times2016; :C29.

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	Chimerism
Abbreviation	Chimerism
ISSN (print)	1938-1956
ISSN (online)	1938-1964
Scope	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology