How to format your references using the DNA Repair citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for DNA Repair. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

R.A. Kerr, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING: Geologists Pursue Solar System’s Oldest Relics, Science 290 (2000) 2239–2242.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Luzzatto, R. Notaro, Malaria. Protecting against bad air, Science 293 (2001) 442–443.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.A. Harris, J. Rogers, A. Milosavljevic, Human-specific changes of genome structure detected by genomic triangulation, Science 316 (2007) 235–237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Hörz, R.A. Muller, T.A. Becker, T.S. Culler, D.B. Karner, P.R. Renne, Time-variable cratering rates?, Science 288 (2000) 2095a.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.I. Alexandrovna, B.I. Ionin, J.C. Tebby, Alkynes in Cycloadditions, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Özcan, N. Chaki, D. Nagamalai, eds., Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Second International Conference, WiMo 2010, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Liflyand, Weighted Estimates for the Discrete Hilbert Transform, in: M. Ruzhansky, S. Tikhonov (Eds.), Methods of Fourier Analysis and Approximation Theory, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 59–69.

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 DNA Repair.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, The Type Of Contraceptive You Use Could Influence Your Sexual Behavior, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/type-contraceptive-use-could-influence-your-sexual-behavior/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Maritime Environment: Federal and State Actions, Expenditures, and Challenges to Addressing Abandoned and Derelict Vessels, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.A. Blicha, Music therapy program for older adults: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

[1]

J. Koblin, M.M. Grynbaum, Top Political Journalist Faces Multiple Claims of Harassment, New York Times (2017) B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	DNA Repair
Abbreviation	DNA Repair (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	1568-7864
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology