How to format your references using the Chromosome Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chromosome Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Zwerger W (2012) Physics. Seeing the superfluid transition of a gas. Science 335:549–550

A journal article with 2 authors

Bucchi M, Neresini F (2004) Biotechnology. Why are people hostile to biotechnologies? Science 304:1749

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng C, Liu X, Wang G (2014) Electrically tunable graphene plasmonic quasicrystal metasurfaces for transformation optics. Sci Rep 4:5763

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Karl DM, Laws EA, Morris P, et al (2003) Global carbon cycle: metabolic balance of the open sea. Nature 426:32

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karmakar NC, Kalansuriya P, Azim RE, Koswatta R (2016) Chipless Radio Frequency Identification Reader Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Oliver M, Sallent S (eds) (2009) The Internet of the Future: 15th Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6.6 Workshop, EUNICE 2009, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-9, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Klimberg VS, Douek M (2016) Axillary Reverse Mapping (ARM) as a Means to Reduce Lymphedema During Sentinel Lymph Node or Axillary Node Dissection. In: Toi M, Winer E, Benson J, Klimberg S (eds) Personalized Treatment of Breast Cancer. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 63–76

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 Chromosome Research.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) What Lies Beneath Antarctica’s Ice? Lakes, Life And The Grandest Of Canyons. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-lies-beneath-antarcticas-ice-lakes-life-and-the-grandest-of-canyons/. 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 (2000) Commercial Motor Vehicles: Significant Actions Remain to Improve Truck Safety. 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

Caverly RS (2010) Marketing masculinity: Male identity, boy culture, and the Boy Scouts of America 1900–1940. 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

Barnard A (2017) U.S. Coalition Munition Use Is Scrutinized In Syria. New York Times A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zwerger 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bucchi and Neresini 2004; Zwerger 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bucchi and Neresini 2004)
Three or more authors: (Karl et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chromosome Research
Abbreviation	Chromosome Res.
ISSN (print)	0967-3849
ISSN (online)	1573-6849
Scope	Genetics