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

Shaw JE. Alejandro Zaffaroni (1923-2014). Nature 2014; 508:187.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stein S, Okal EA. Seismology: speed and size of the Sumatra earthquake. Nature 2005; 434:581–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu W, Pellegrini M, Wang X. Detecting communities based on network topology. Sci Rep 2014; 4:5739.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pelaz S, Ditta GS, Baumann E, Wisman E, Yanofsky MF. B and C floral organ identity functions require SEPALLATA MADS-box genes. Nature 2000; 405:200–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahonen TT. m-Profits. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Catania B, Cerquitelli T, Chiusano S, Guerrini G, Kämpf M, Kemper A, Novikov B, Palpanas T, Pokorný J, Vakali A, editors. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems: 17th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Sen S, Chakraborty R, De B. Prevalence of Diabetes and Its Economic Impact. In: Chakraborty R, De B, editors. Diabetes Mellitus in 21st Century. Singapore: Springer; 2016. page 27–34.

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

Hamilton K. Scientists Pinpoint Neurons In The Brain That Regulate Thirst [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-pinpoint-neurons-brain-regulate-thirst/

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Management Practices for Technical Training Mostly Effective; Further Actions Could Enhance Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anderson A. Scribblins. 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

Hollander S. Fame on the Half Shell. New York Times2009; :CY1.

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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