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

Simmons JG (2010) Timeline: Lindau and the zeitgeist. Nature 467:S14-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Siomi H, Siomi MC (2015) RNA. Phased piRNAs tackle transposons. Science 348:756–757

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohse D, Schmitz B, Versluis M (2001) Snapping shrimp make flashing bubbles. Nature 413:477–478

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dillehay TD, Rossen J, Andres TC, Williams DE (2007) Preceramic adoption of peanut, squash, and cotton in northern Peru. Science 316:1890–1893

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Etheridge D (2010) Excel® Data Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Camp O, Weippl E, Bidan C, Aïmeur E (eds) (2015) Information Systems Security and Privacy: First International Conference, ICISSP 2015, Angers, France, February 9-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nawrocki J, Ochodek M, Jurkiewicz J, et al (2014) Agile Requirements Engineering: A Research Perspective. In: Geffert V, Preneel B, Rovan B, et al. (eds) SOFSEM 2014: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Nový Smokovec, Slovakia, January 26-29, 2014, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 40–51

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

Carpineti A (2016) What Would You See If You Turned Your Headlights On While Driving A Car At Lightspeed? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-would-you-see-if-you-turned-your-headlights-on-while-driving-a-car-at-lightspeed/. 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 (1986) Rehabilitation Services: Administration of Grants to Human Services Training and Research Council. 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

Mitchell VM (2014) A phenomenological study factors African American female college students face participating in engineering STEM majors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Qiu L (2017) On When They Met, and Those Vacancies. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simmons 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Simmons 2010; Siomi and Siomi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Siomi and Siomi 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dillehay et al. 2007)

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