How to format your references using the Chromosoma citation style

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

Kolter R (2007) Microbiology. Deadly priming. Science 318:578–579

A journal article with 2 authors

Esmaeili-Rad MR, Salahuddin S (2013) High performance molybdenum disulfide amorphous silicon heterojunction photodetector. Sci Rep 3:2345

A journal article with 3 authors

Callou C, Samzun A, Zivie A (2004) Archaeology: a lion found in the Egyptian tomb of Maïa. Nature 427:211–212

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hubler Z, Allimuthu D, Bederman I, et al (2018) Accumulation of 8,9-unsaturated sterols drives oligodendrocyte formation and remyelination. Nature 560:372–376

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cahill TH (2012) Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zhang W, Shmulevich I (eds) (2006) Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics, Second Edition. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Kim W-D, Oh S-K, Kim J-T (2012) Design of Optimized Radial Basis Function Neural Networks Classifier with the Aid of Fuzzy Clustering and Data Preprocessing Method. In: Wang J, Yen GG, Polycarpou MM (eds) Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012: 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 38–45

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 Chromosoma.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Two-Father Babies Could Soon Be Possible, With No Egg Donor Required. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/two-father-babies-could-soon-be-possible-no-egg-donor-required/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1992) Intermodal Freight Transportation: Combined Rail-Truck Service Offers Public Benefits, but Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Webb CT (2009) “The mirroring that binds into freedom”: Stevens, Jeffers, Heidegger and the inhuman. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Walsh MW (2012) Untouchable Pensions May Be Tested in California. New York Times B1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kolter 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kolter 2007; Esmaeili-Rad and Salahuddin 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Esmaeili-Rad and Salahuddin 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hubler et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chromosoma
Abbreviation	Chromosoma
ISSN (print)	0009-5915
ISSN (online)	1432-0886
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)