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

Szostak JW. Functional information: Molecular messages. Nature. 2003 Jun;423(6941):689.

A journal article with 2 authors

Micchelli CA, Perrimon N. Evidence that stem cells reside in the adult Drosophila midgut epithelium. Nature. 2006 Jan;439(7075):475–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kageyama A, Miyagoshi T, Sato T. Formation of current coils in geodynamo simulations. Nature. 2008 Aug;454(7208):1106–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Press D, Ladd TD, Zhang B, Yamamoto Y. Complete quantum control of a single quantum dot spin using ultrafast optical pulses. Nature. 2008 Nov;456(7219):218–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horváth T. Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Gilchrest BA, Krutmann J, editors. Skin Aging. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Lobo AP, Salvo JJ. Quality of Age Data at the PUMA Level in the 3-Year Estimates from the American Community Survey. In: Hoque N, Swanson DA, editors. Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012; pp 27–47.

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

Andrews R. Africa Due For Annual Heat Waves By 2040 Thanks To Climate Change [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/africa-due-annual-heat-waves-2040-thanks-climate-change/

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. GPS Disruptions: Efforts to Assess Risks to Critical Infrastructure and Coordinate Agency Actions Should Be Enhanced. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blandin NM. Re-conceptualizing leadership for an era of complexity and uncertainty: A case study of leadership in a complex adaptive system. 2008

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

Walsh MW. Witness Cites Recipe for Toxic Air, and Debt, at Puerto Rico’s Power Company. New York Times. 2016 Feb;B1.

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)