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

Pourquié O (2003) The segmentation clock: converting embryonic time into spatial pattern. Science 301:328–330

A journal article with 2 authors

Solé R, Macía J (2014) Synthetic biology: Biocircuits in synchrony. Nature 508:326–327

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshizawa M, Tamura M, Fujita M (2006) Diels-alder in aqueous molecular hosts: unusual regioselectivity and efficient catalysis. Science 312:251–254

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Phillips RJ, Davis BJ, Tanaka KL, et al (2011) Massive CO₂ ice deposits sequestered in the south polar layered deposits of Mars. Science 332:838–841

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghavami M, Michael LB, Kohno R (2006) Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Herrmann G, Pearson MJ, Lenz A, et al (eds) (2013) Social Robotics: 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013, Bristol, UK, October 27-29, 2013, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nataro JP (2013) Diarrhea Among Children in Developing Countries. In: Curtis N, Finn A, Pollard AJ (eds) Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children IX. Springer, New York, NY, pp 73–80

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

Andrews R (2016) Scientists Say We Shouldn’t Resurrect Prehistoric Beasts From Beyond The Grave. 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 (2003) Telecommunications: GSA Needs to Improve Process for Awarding Task Orders for Local Service. 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

Madapatha SA (2015) Energy efficient hierarchical wireless routing protocol (EEHW routing protocol). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Again Faces Draft Issue As He Returns to New Hampshire. New York Times 120

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pourquié 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Pourquié 2003; Solé and Macía 2014).

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

Two authors: (Solé and Macía 2014)
Three or more authors: (Phillips et al. 2011)

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