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

Hoffert M (2011) Governments must pay for clean-energy innovation. Nature 472:137

A journal article with 2 authors

Meharg AA, Killham K (2003) Environment: A pre-industrial source of dioxins and furans. Nature 421:909–910

A journal article with 3 authors

Li X, Roberti R, Blobel G (2015) Structure of an integral membrane sterol reductase from Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum. Nature 517:104–107

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kasturi SP, Skountzou I, Albrecht RA, et al (2011) Programming the magnitude and persistence of antibody responses with innate immunity. Nature 470:543–547

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg S (2011) Cost-Contained Regulatory Compliance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Aygok GA, Rekate HL (eds) (2012) Hydrocephalus: Selected Papers from the International Workshop in Crete, 2010. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

De Paoli F, Maurino A, Toma I, et al (2009) Non-Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service-Oriented Computing (NFPSLA-SOC ’07) – Organizers’ Workshop Summary. In: Nitto ED, Ripeanu M (eds) Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007 Workshops: ICSOC 2007, International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–44

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 E (2014) New Study Reveals Most Influential Languages. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-study-reveals-most-influential-languages/. 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 (1978) Legislation Amending the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. 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

Collins JW (2015) An Examination of Chronic Absenteeism as Related to Performance on End-of-Year Missouri State Assessments. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Pennington B, Belson K (2017) Panthers’ Newton Stands Out in a Quieter Week of Player Protests. New York Times D7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoffert 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Meharg and Killham 2003; Hoffert 2011).

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

Two authors: (Meharg and Killham 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kasturi et al. 2011)

About the journal

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