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

Eisenstein M. Vaccines: a moving target. Nature. 2011 Jun;474(7350):S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson TL, Jackson GA. Small phytoplankton and carbon export from the surface ocean. Science. 2007 Feb;315(5813):838–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dasen JS, Liu J-P, Jessell TM. Motor neuron columnar fate imposed by sequential phases of Hox-c activity. Nature. 2003 Oct;425(6961):926–33.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sebastiani P, Solovieff N, Puca A, Hartley SW, Melista E, Andersen S, et al. Genetic signatures of exceptional longevity in humans. Science. 2010 Jul;2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young S, Bramham J. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Corchado JM, Paz JFD, Rocha MP, Fernández Riverola F, editors. 2nd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IWPACBB 2008). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Mattatia F. An Overview of Some Electronic Identification Use Cases in Europe. In: Assar S, Boughzala I, Boydens I, editors. Practical Studies in E-Government: Best Practices from Around the World. New York, NY: Springer; 2011; pp 71–92.

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

Carpineti A. Star Clusters Are Responsible For Dusting Up Galaxies [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Dec [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/star-clusters-are-responsible-for-dusting-up-galaxies/

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. Relationship of Contractor and Grantee ADP Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hariharan SB. The Structure of the Blue Whirl: A Soot-Free Reacting Vortex Phenomenon. 2017

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

Abad S, Casey N. Race Is On to Find Survivors of Colombia Mudslide. New York Times. 2017 Apr;A6.

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)

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