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

Cochrane MA. Fire science for rainforests. Nature. 2003 Feb;421(6926):913–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tessier PM, Lindquist S. Prion recognition elements govern nucleation, strain specificity and species barriers. Nature. 2007 May;447(7144):556–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dominguez P, Jacobson AG, Jefferies RPS. Paired gill slits in a fossil with a calcite skeleton. Nature. 2002 Jun;417(6891):841–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhu J, Shendure J, Mitra RD, Church GM. Single molecule profiling of alternative pre-mRNA splicing. Science. 2003 Aug;301(5634):836–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abu-Jamous B, Fa R, Nandi AK. Integrative Cluster Analysis in Bioinformatics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

de Miguel Beriain I, Romeo Casabona CM, editors. Synbio and Human Health: A Challenge to the Current IP Framework? Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Vajda P, Ellmann A, Meurers B, Vaníček P, Novák P, Tenzer R. Harmonic Continuation and Gravimetric Inversion of Gravity in Areas of Negative Geodetic Heights. In: Mertikas SP, editor. Gravity, Geoid and Earth Observation: IAG Commission 2: Gravity Field, Chania, Crete, Greece, 23-27 June 2008. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 25–30.

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

Hale T. Scientists Claim To Have Translated Panda “Language” [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-claim-have-translated-panda-language/

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. ADP Telecommunications: HCFA Needs to Expedite Transition to FTS 2000. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Scuderi NF. Servant leadership and transformational leadership in church organizations. 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

Walsh MW. As Payouts Rise, New Tactics By the U.S. Pension Insurer. New York Times. 2010 Nov;B5.

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)