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]

J.F. Brookfield, Predicting the future, Nature 411 (2001) 999.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.A. King, S.M. Thomas, Big lessons for a healthy future, Nature 449 (2007) 791–792.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.M. Lazzerini, L.M. Strambini, G. Barillaro, Addressing reliability and degradation of chemitransistor sensors by electrical tuning of the sensitivity, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1161.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.R. Dinneny, T.A. Long, J.Y. Wang, J.W. Jung, D. Mace, S. Pointer, C. Barron, S.M. Brady, J. Schiefelbein, P.N. Benfey, Cell identity mediates the response of Arabidopsis roots to abiotic stress, Science 320 (2008) 942–945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W.M. Stacey, Fusion, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

C. Arnoldner, Manual of Otologic Surgery, Springer, Vienna, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Mollenhorst, Context Overlap and Multiplexity in Personal Relationships, in: T.N. Friemel (Ed.), Why Context Matters: Applications of Social Network Analysis, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2008: pp. 55–77.

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]

R. Andrews, Peculiar Ancient Marine Reptile Reveals Life Evolved Rapidly After 'Great Dying” Apocalypse, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/peculiar-ancient-marine-reptile-reveals-life-evolved-rapidly-after-great-dying/ (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, Medicare: Information Systems Modernization Needs Stronger Management and Support, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.G. Poldervaart, A qualitative study of nursing didactic programs: Novice nurses’ perception of competence, confidence, and retention, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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

[1]

K. Crow, With Young Rhythm in His Bones, A Drummers’ Drummer Turns 80, New York Times (2000) 146.

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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