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

Moore P. Hot from the vent. Nature 2005; 435:235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rybczynski N, Reisz RR. Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore. Nature 2001; 411:684–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moreno M, Rosenau M, Oncken O. 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone. Nature 2010; 467:198–202.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Parker AR, McPhedran RC, McKenzie DR, Botten LC, Nicorovici NA. Photonic engineering. Aphrodite’s iridescence. Nature 2001; 409:36–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant G, Broniatowski M. Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Rogach AL, editor. Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Assembly, Spectroscopy and Applications. Vienna: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Qi G, Lei H, Jing P, Fu G, He H, Guo Q. Laser Shearography Testing for Aircraft Composite and Honeycomb Components. In: Wang J, editor. Proceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management-Volume I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. page 39–44.

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

Andrew E. Upcoming Battery Will Charge Phones And Electric Cars in Minutes [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/upcoming-battery-will-charge-phones-and-electric-cars-minutes/

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. Space Transportation: The Content and Uses of Shuttle Cost Estimates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brightbill RG. Bradenton, FL: A Patchwork City. 2012;

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

Barboza D. Chinese Giant Rose on a Web Of Family Ties. New York Times2017; :A1.

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