How to format your references using the Cytogenetic and Genome Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cytogenetic and Genome 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	Download the output style file
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

Shepherd TG. Climate science: The dynamics of temperature extremes. Nature. 2015 Jun;522(7557):425–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Froemke RC, Dan Y. Spike-timing-dependent synaptic modification induced by natural spike trains. Nature. 2002 Mar;416(6879):433–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morse SS, Garwin RL, Olsiewski PJ. Public health. Next flu pandemic: what to do until the vaccine arrives? Science. 2006 Nov;314(5801):929.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wood JG, Rogina B, Lavu S, Howitz K, Helfand SL, Tatar M, et al. Sirtuin activators mimic caloric restriction and delay ageing in metazoans. Nature. 2004 Aug;430(7000):686–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spiegel R. Psychopharmacology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Bhowmick SS, Küng J, Wagner R, editors. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 20th International Conference, DEXA 2009, Linz, Austria, August 31 – September 4, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

McLaurin BT, Elliott AC, Torres N. Erratum to: Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions – Volume I. In: Elliott AC, Torres N, editors. Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions - Volume 1: Interpreting Desert and Fluvial Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012; pp E1–E1.

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 Cytogenetic and Genome Research.

Blog post

Taub B. Scientists Finally Get To Grips With Monkey Language [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jul

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. Broadband Performance: Additional Actions Could Help FCC Evaluate Its Efforts to Inform Consumers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pelser CR. Interpretation of Aaron Copland’s Duo for Flute and Piano. 2010

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

Wingfield N, Couturier K. Detailing Amazon’s Custom-Clothing Patent. New York Times. 2017 Apr;B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Cytogenetic and Genome Research
Abbreviation	Cytogenet. Genome Res.
ISSN (print)	1424-8581
ISSN (online)	1424-859X
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Genetics(clinical)