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

Ward, C.D., 2000. Bordeaux mixture. Nature 404, 337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hamanaka, R.B., Chandel, N.S., 2011. Cell biology. Warburg effect and redox balance. Science 334, 1219–1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Patkowski, K., Spirko, V., Szalewicz, K., 2009. On the elusive twelfth vibrational state of beryllium dimer. Science 326, 1382–1384.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lorenz, I.C., Marcotrigiano, J., Dentzer, T.G., Rice, C.M., 2006. Structure of the catalytic domain of the hepatitis C virus NS2-3 protease. Nature 442, 831–835.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ryan, F., 2013. Cognitive Therapy for Addiction. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Bossong, R., Carrapico, H. (Eds.), 2016. EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security: Technology, Externalization and Accountability, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Girbau, J., Bruna, L., 2010. Cauchy Problem for Einstein’s Equation with Matter, in: Bruna, L. (Ed.), Stability by Linearization of Einstein’s Field Equation, Progress in Mathematical Physics. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 63–108.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. ‘Don’t Feed The Trolls’ Really Is Good Advice – Here’s The Evidence [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/dont-feed-the-trolls-really-is-good-advice-heres-the-evidence/ (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, 1977. Proposed Legislation to Fund and Establish a Nonprofit National Center for Long-Term Environmental Research (No. B-140579). 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

Danna, R.J., 2014. Learning-Assisted Market-Based Optimization for Truck Task Scheduling (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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, S., 1998. Miss. Loves Nev. New York Times 732.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ward, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hamanaka and Chandel, 2011; Ward, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hamanaka and Chandel, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lorenz et al., 2006)

About the journal

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