How to format your references using the Cytotechnology citation style

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

Willerroider M (2004) Making the move into drug sales. Nature 430:486–487

A journal article with 2 authors

Win MN, Smolke CD (2008) Higher-order cellular information processing with synthetic RNA devices. Science 322:456–460

A journal article with 3 authors

Lanzillo NA, Kharche N, Nayak SK (2014) Substrate-induced band gap renormalization in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Sci Rep 4:3609

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chu P, Chen DP, Wang YL, et al (2014) Kinetics of 90° domain wall motions and high frequency mesoscopic dielectric response in strained ferroelectrics: a phase-field simulation. Sci Rep 4:5007

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chowdhury S (2016) Optimization and Business Improvement Studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Villafiorita A, Saint-Paul R, Zorer A (eds) (2010) E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countries: First International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2009, Maputo, Mozambique, December 3-4, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Salomaa R (2014) Coaching of Key Talents in Multinational Companies. In: Al Ariss A (ed) Global Talent Management: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 43–63

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 Cytotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Molten Aluminum Makes Casts of Ant Nest. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/molten-aluminum-makes-casts-ant-nest/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1994) Aviation Security: Additional Actions Needed to Meet Domestic and International Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sumner I (2010) Quantum wavepacket ab initio molecular dynamics: Simulating quantum nuclear effects in complex systems. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Saslow L (2007) Superintendent Takes On Ailing Roosevelt. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Willerroider 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Willerroider 2004; Win and Smolke 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Win and Smolke 2008)
Three or more authors: (Chu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cytotechnology
Abbreviation	Cytotechnology
ISSN (print)	0920-9069
ISSN (online)	1573-0778
Scope	Biotechnology Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering