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

Cyranoski, D., 2000. Japan sets sights on success in nanotechnology. Nature 408, 624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mogk, A., Bukau, B., 2010. Cell biology. When the beginning marks the end. Science 327, 966–967.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corezzi, S., Fioretto, D., Rolla, P., 2002. Bond-controlled configurational entropy reduction in chemical vitrification. Nature 420, 653–656.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rius, J., Guma, M., Schachtrup, C., Akassoglou, K., Zinkernagel, A.S., Nizet, V., Johnson, R.S., Haddad, G.G., Karin, M., 2008. NF-kappaB links innate immunity to the hypoxic response through transcriptional regulation of HIF-1alpha. Nature 453, 807–811.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cohen, C., 2013. Business Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Faure, C., Di Lorenzo, C., Thapar, N. (Eds.), 2013. Pediatric Neurogastroenterology: Gastrointestinal Motility and Functional Disorders in Children, Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Karlsson, B.F., Furtado, A.L., 2014. Conceptual Model and System for Genre-Focused Interactive Storytelling, in: Pisan, Y., Sgouros, N.M., Marsh, T. (Eds.), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014: 13th International Conference, ICEC 2014, Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 27–35.

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., 2014. U.S. Halts Research On Viral Super-Strains, Citing Safety Concerns [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-halts-research-viral-super-strains-citing-safety-concerns/ (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, 2002. Electronic Government: Challenges to Effective Adoption of the Extensible Markup Language (No. GAO-02-327). 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

Lawary, Y., 2014. A Comparison of How Three Four-Year University Teacher Education Programs Prepare Pre-Service Teachers to Use Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (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

Fisher, L., 2008. QUOTATION OF THE DAY. New York Times A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski, 2000; Mogk and Bukau, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Mogk and Bukau, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Rius et al., 2008)

About the journal

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