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

Kaiser J (2000) TOXICOLOGY: Panel Urges Further Study of Biotech Corn. Science 290:1867a

A journal article with 2 authors

Bongaarts J, Sinding S (2011) Population policy in transition in the developing world. Science 333:574–576

A journal article with 3 authors

Papp B, Pál C, Hurst LD (2003) Dosage sensitivity and the evolution of gene families in yeast. Nature 424:194–197

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lendvai B, Stern EA, Chen B, Svoboda K (2000) Experience-dependent plasticity of dendritic spines in the developing rat barrel cortex in vivo. Nature 404:876–881

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grotewold E, Chappell J, Kellogg EA (2015) Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pulinets S (2005) Ionospheric Precursors of Earthquakes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Carolan E, McLoone SC, Farrell R (2015) A Predictive Model for Minimising Power Usage in Radio Access Networks. In: Agüero R, Zinner T, García-Lozano M, et al. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management: 7th International Conference, MONAMI 2015, Santander, Spain, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–67

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

Luntz S (2017) Aviation Biofuels Might Just Work For Cutting Greenhouse Emissions. In: IFLScience. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Estimated Costs, Planned Uses of Emergency Funding, and Future Implications. 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

Horta G (2013) The potential of the Eurozone crisis to mobilize extreme right support in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Koblin J (2017) ‘Idol’ Reboot Joins Roster Of Revivals. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kaiser 2000; Bongaarts and Sinding 2011).

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

Two authors: (Bongaarts and Sinding 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lendvai et al. 2000)

About the journal

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