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

Thomas DJ (2004) Evidence for deep-water production in the North Pacific Ocean during the early Cenozoic warm interval. Nature 430:65–68

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoo AS, Greenwald I (2005) LIN-12/Notch activation leads to microRNA-mediated down-regulation of Vav in C. elegans. Science 310:1330–1333

A journal article with 3 authors

Qvarnström A, Pärt T, Sheldon BC (2000) Adaptive plasticity in mate preference linked to differences in reproductive effort. Nature 405:344–347

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Keller M, Lange B, Hayasaka K, et al (2004) Continuous generation of single photons with controlled waveform in an ion-trap cavity system. Nature 431:1075–1078

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wesley LD (2010) Geotechnical Engineering in Residual Soils. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kim S, Jung J-W, Kubota N (eds) (2014) Soft Computing in Intelligent Control. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Seredynski M, Ignac T, Bouvry P (2010) Probabilistic Packet Relaying in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In: Wyrzykowski R, Dongarra J, Karczewski K, Wasniewski J (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 8th International Conference, PPAM 2009, Wroclaw, Poland, September 13-16, 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–40

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 (2015) What Happens When You Add A Drop Of Liquid Nitrogen To Gasoline? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/what-happens-when-you-add-drop-liquid-nitrogen-gasoline/. 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 (1984) [Request for Clarification and Expansion of GAO Views on the Chadha Decision]. 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

Williams K (2016) From Cribs to Crayons: A Study on the Use of Universal Curriculum and Assessment of Preschool Students and Teachers in the Classroom. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Andrews M (2017) Venus Williams Investigated in Fatal Crash. New York Times B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thomas 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Thomas 2004; Yoo and Greenwald 2005).

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

Two authors: (Yoo and Greenwald 2005)
Three or more authors: (Keller et al. 2004)

About the journal

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