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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Ledford H. Beyond the Triangle. Nature 2008; 452:908–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brédas J-L, Silbey R. Chemistry. Excitons surf along conjugated polymer chains. Science 2009; 323:348–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Choe J, Kelker MS, Wilson IA. Crystal structure of human toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) ectodomain. Science 2005; 309:581–5.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sun C, Ma M, Yang J, Zhang Y, Chen P, Huang W, Dong X. Phase-controlled synthesis of α-NiS nanoparticles confined in carbon nanorods for high performance supercapacitors. Sci Rep 2014; 4:7054.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dao TT, Ho Ba Tho M-C. Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Menon S, Sinha A, Sreekantan BV, editors. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar S, Gulati R. Relevance of Non-traditional Activities on the Efficiency of Indian Banks. In: Gulati R, editor. Deregulation and Efficiency of Indian Banks. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014. page 167–200.

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. Expert Panel Slams WHO Over Ebola Response [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/expert-panel-slams-who-over-ebola-response/

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. Measuring Performance: Strengths and Limitations of Research Indicators. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huffman KD. Teacher and administrator perceptions of a balanced school calendar and its effects on students in poverty. 2009;

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

Crow K. A Prickly Mason-Dixon Line in the Village. New York Times2002; :146.

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