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

Wan Z (2015) China’s scientific progress hinges on access to data. Nature 520:587

A journal article with 2 authors

Jung J, Bonini N (2007) CREB-binding protein modulates repeat instability in a Drosophila model for polyQ disease. Science 315:1857–1859

A journal article with 3 authors

Alfe D, Gillan MJ, Price GD (2000) Constraints on the composition of the Earth’s core from ab initio calculations. Nature 405:172–175

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Savolainen P, Zhang Y-P, Luo J, et al (2002) Genetic evidence for an East Asian origin of domestic dogs. Science 298:1610–1613

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Otto M (2016) Chemometrics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Aufaure M-A, Zimányi E (eds) (2013) Business Intelligence: Second European Summer School, eBISS 2012, Brussels, Belgium, July 15-21, 2012, Tutorial Lectures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jarrah AS, Laubenbacher R (2009) On the Algebraic Geometry of Polynomial Dynamical Systems. In: Putinar M, Sullivant S (eds) Emerging Applications of Algebraic Geometry. Springer, New York, NY, pp 109–123

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

Evans K (2017) China Plans To Open The World’s First Panda Retirement Home. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/china-plans-to-open-the-worlds-first-panda-retirement-home/. 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 (1976) The Legislative Focus on Federal ADP Procurement and GAO’s Role. 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

Revzin NT (2010) From selling rags to wearing riches: German Jews’ economic progress in the first half of the nineteenth century. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kelly M (1993) Saint Hillary. New York Times 622

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wan 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jung and Bonini 2007; Wan 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jung and Bonini 2007)
Three or more authors: (Savolainen et al. 2002)

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