How to format your references using the Mitochondrion citation style

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

Spudich, J.A., 2011. Biochemistry. Molecular motors, beauty in complexity. Science 331, 1143–1144.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nussenzweig, M.C., Mellman, I., 2011. Ralph Steinman (1943-2011). Nature 478, 460.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moreira, J.A., Pacheco, J.M., Santos, F.C., 2013. Evolution of collective action in adaptive social structures. Sci. Rep. 3, 1521.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Skaar, E.P., Humayun, M., Bae, T., DeBord, K.L., Schneewind, O., 2004. Iron-source preference of Staphylococcus aureus infections. Science 305, 1626–1628.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Green, P.E., Jr., 2005. Fiber to the Home. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zuidam, N.J., Nedovic, V. (Eds.), 2010. Encapsulation Technologies for Active Food Ingredients and Food Processing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhattacharya, P., Ghosh, S.K., Roy, B., 2015. Vertex Guarding in Weak Visibility Polygons, in: Ganguly, S., Krishnamurti, R. (Eds.), Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics: First International Conference, CALDAM 2015, Kanpur, India, February 8-10, 2015. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–57.

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 Mitochondrion.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The Ethics Of ‘Gifted’ Genes: The Road To Gattaca? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Space Acquisitions: Committing Prematurely to the Transformational Satellite Program Elevates Risks for Poor Cost, Schedule, and Performance Outcomes (No. GAO-04-71R). 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

Dickens, K.R., 2010. Factors influencing teacher job satisfaction and their alignment with current district practices in a suburban school district (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Wines, M., Williams, T., 2014. Huge Leak of Coal Ash Slows at North Carolina Power Plant. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spudich, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Nussenzweig and Mellman, 2011; Spudich, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nussenzweig and Mellman, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Skaar et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mitochondrion
Abbreviation	Mitochondrion
ISSN (print)	1567-7249
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine