How to format your references using the Comparative Cytogenetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Cytogenetics. 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

Lincoln T (2001) Animal behaviour: Greensleaves. Nature 410: 318.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckley YM, Han Y (2014) Ecology. Managing the side effects of invasion control. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344: 975–976.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clark CJ, Elias DO, Prum RO (2011) Aeroelastic flutter produces hummingbird feather songs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 1430–1433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brunet I, Weinl C, Piper M, Trembleau A, Volovitch M, Harris W, Prochiantz A, Holt C (2005) The transcription factor Engrailed-2 guides retinal axons. Nature 438: 94–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kodama KP, Hinnov LA (2014) Rock Magnetic Cyclostratigraphy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

Li S-T, Zhong J, Sekula RF Jr (Eds) (2016) Microvascular Decompression Surgery. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, VIII, 193 p. 85 illus., 60 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ascher W, Mirovitskaya N (2016) Pitfalls of Macroeconomic Decisions. In: Mirovitskaya N (Ed.), Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence: Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 69–79.

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 Comparative Cytogenetics.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) A Nazi Time Capsule Has Been Unearthed At A Former Training Camp. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-nazi-time-capsule-has-been-unearthed-at-a-former-training-camp/ (October 30, 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 (1986) Efforts To Comply With P.L. 94-142 and Selected Youth Services Administration Management Functions. 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

Swenson MD (2012) Second generation Latinos and the perceived barriers to college enrollment. 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

Feeney K (2007) Filipino Fast Food to Linger Over. New York Times: NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lincoln 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lincoln 2001, Buckley and Han 2014).

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

Two authors: (Buckley and Han 2014)
Three or more authors: (Brunet et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Cytogenetics
ISSN (print)	1993-0771
ISSN (online)	1993-078X
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