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

Chang HY (2009) Anatomic demarcation of cells: genes to patterns. Science 326:1206–1207

A journal article with 2 authors

Wicherts JM, Scholten AZ (2013) Comment on “Poverty impedes cognitive function.” Science 342:1169

A journal article with 3 authors

Clevers H, Loh KM, Nusse R (2014) Stem cell signaling. An integral program for tissue renewal and regeneration: Wnt signaling and stem cell control. Science 346:1248012

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang H, Jeffrey PD, Miller J, et al (2002) BRCA2 function in DNA binding and recombination from a BRCA2-DSS1-ssDNA structure. Science 297:1837–1848

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dinet J (2014) Information Retrieval in Digital Environments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sworder DD (2016) Locating, Classifying and Countering Agile Land Vehicles: With Applications to Command Architectures, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Sen S, Chakraborty R, De B (2016) Pregnancy and Diabetes. In: Chakraborty R, De B (eds) Diabetes Mellitus in 21st Century. Springer, Singapore, pp 35–44

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

Carpineti A (2016) Even Thermodynamics Gets Weird At An Atomic Level. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/even-thermodynamics-gets-weird-at-an-atomic-level/. 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 (1976) NASA Designation of Their Ames Facility to Be Lead Center for Helicopter Research and Development. 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

Allen EL (2015) Teacher Evaluation and Student Achievement in Elementary Education. 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

Koblin J (2016) NBCUniversal Buys TV Rights to ‘Harry Potter.’ New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chang 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chang 2009; Wicherts and Scholten 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wicherts and Scholten 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2002)

About the journal

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