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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Greene M (2001) A tool, not a tyrant. Nature 410:875

A journal article with 2 authors

Hansen JD, Reich J (2015) Democratizing education? Examining access and usage patterns in massive open online courses. Science 350:1245–1248

A journal article with 3 authors

Elsaesser H, Sauer K, Brooks DG (2009) IL-21 is required to control chronic viral infection. Science 324:1569–1572

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Federzoni EA, Humbert M, Torbett BE, et al (2014) CEBPA-dependent HK3 and KLF5 expression in primary AML and during AML differentiation. Sci Rep 4:4261

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertein J-C, Ceschi R (2013) Discrete Stochastic Processes and Optimal Filtering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Abd Manaf A, Sahibuddin S, Ahmad R, et al (eds) (2011) Informatics Engineering and Information Science: International Conference, ICIEIS 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 14-16, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wehren B, Schädler B, Weingartner R (2010) Human Interventions. In: Bundi U (ed) Alpine Waters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–92

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

Hamilton K (2015) Male Seahorse Gives Birth To Babies Like An Underwater Shotgun. In: IFLScience. 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 (2011) Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Improve Security, but Additional Efforts Remain. 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

Battaglia M (2015) Presenting a pluralized past: Assessing the efficacy of multivocal, bison-themed lesson units as a public education and outreach strategy for archaeology. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

McKINLEY JC Jr (2017) Released Man’s Murder Charge Stokes a Bail Debate. New York Times A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greene 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Greene 2001; Hansen and Reich 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hansen and Reich 2015)
Three or more authors: (Federzoni 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