How to format your references using the Microarrays citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microarrays. 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

Goodby, J.W. Obituary: Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930-2004). Nature 2004, 428, 906.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukas, D.; Huchard, E. Sexual Conflict. The Evolution of Infanticide by Males in Mammalian Societies. Science 2014, 346, 841–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

Al-Zaid, F.S.; Alhader, A.A.; Al-Ayadhi, L.Y. Altered Ghrelin Levels in Boys with Autism: A Novel Finding Associated with Hormonal Dysregulation. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Gouw, J.A.; Middlebrook, A.M.; Warneke, C.; Ahmadov, R.; Atlas, E.L.; Bahreini, R.; Blake, D.R.; Brock, C.A.; Brioude, J.; Fahey, D.W.; et al. Organic Aerosol Formation Downwind from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Science 2011, 331, 1295–1299.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cunningham, V. Victorian Poetry Now; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781444340440.

An edited book

Image Analysis and Recognition: 13th International Conference, ICIAR 2016, in Memory of Mohamed Kamel, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings; Campilho, A., Karray, F., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 9730; ISBN 9783319415000.

A chapter in an edited book

Kufleitner, M. Polynomials, Fragments of Temporal Logic and the Variety DA over Traces. In Developments in Language Theory: 10th International Conference, DLT 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 26-29, 2006. Proceedings; Ibarra, O.H., Dang, Z., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; pp. 37–48 ISBN 9783540354284.

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 Microarrays.

Blog post

Fang, J. Seabirds Feast On Seafood Buffet Thanks To Jellyfish Blooms Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seabirds-feast-seafood-buffet-thanks-jellyfish-blooms/ (accessed on 30 October 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 District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Additional Policies and Procedures Would Improve Internal Controls and Program Operations; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valenzuela, B.D. Thirty-Year-Old Mulberry Field. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Goldman, A.; Tabuchi, H.; Ewing, J. F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Cheating Scandal. New York Times 2017, A13.

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	Microarrays
Abbreviation	Microarrays (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2076-3905
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