How to format your references using the Cytokine: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cytokine: X. 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

[1]

H. McBride, Young scientist: women mentoring women, Nature. 426 (2003) 588.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.C. Lee, V. Ambros, An extensive class of small RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans, Science. 294 (2001) 862–864.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.T. Deller, M. Bailes, S.J. Tingay, Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B, Science. 323 (2009) 1327–1329.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T.H. Chi, M. Wan, K. Zhao, I. Taniuchi, L. Chen, D.R. Littman, G.R. Crabtree, Reciprocal regulation of CD4/CD8 expression by SWI/SNF-like BAF complexes, Nature. 418 (2002) 195–199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-P. Marage, Y. Mori, Sonar and Underwater Acoustics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

B. Hofmeyr, ed., Radical Passivity: Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Eriksson, Using Invariants for Phylogenetic Tree Construction, in: M. Putinar, S. Sullivant (Eds.), Emerging Applications of Algebraic Geometry, Springer, New York, NY, 2009: pp. 89–108.

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 Cytokine: X.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How Plankton Help Control Clouds Over The World’s Most Remote Oceans, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-plankton-help-control-clouds-over-world-s-most-remote-oceans/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, [Department of the Interior: Migratory Bird Hunting Final Rule], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.A. Brown, Silenced Voices That Cry in the Night: The Transformative Experience of Spouses of Wounded Warriors - Is it Transformative Learning? A Phenomenological Study, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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

[1]

L. Conte, Scouting Report, New York Times. (2011) E5.

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	Cytokine: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1532
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