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

Butler D. Safety doubts force rethink of embattled comet mission. Nature 2003; 421:198.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gabaldón T, Huynen MA. Reconstruction of the proto-mitochondrial metabolism. Science 2003; 301:609.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branch TA, Hively DJ, Hilborn R. Is the ocean food provision index biased? Nature 2013; 495:E5-6; discussion E7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Choe SB, Acremann Y, Scholl A, Bauer A, Doran A, Stöhr J, Padmore HA. Vortex core-driven magnetization dynamics. Science 2004; 304:420–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sluga H. Wittgenstein. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Sadowski T, editor. IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Modelling of Damage and Fracture Processes in Composite Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 23–27 May 2005. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Aho T. Reality TV and Its Audiences Reconsidered: Class and Poverty in Undercover Boss (CBS). In: Lemke S, Schniedermann W, editors. Class Divisions in Serial Television. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. page 89–117.

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

O`Callaghan J. How To Make A Diamond With Acid [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/new-theory-diamond-formation-acidic-water-proposed/

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. Women in STEM Research: Better Data and Information Sharing Could Improve Oversight of Federal Grant-making and Title IX Compliance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Morrow ST. Coboundary theorems for collections of random variables with moment conditions. 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

Wagner J. Already Loaded With Talent, Cubs May Get a Slugger Back From an Injury. New York Times2016; :B10.

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

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