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

Wu, R., 2004. Making an impact. Nature 428, 206–207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Geim, A.K., Grigorieva, I.V., 2013. Van der Waals heterostructures. Nature 499, 419–425.

A journal article with 3 authors

Borys, N.J., Shafran, E., Lupton, J.M., 2013. Surface plasmon delocalization in silver nanoparticle aggregates revealed by subdiffraction supercontinuum hot spots. Sci. Rep. 3, 2090.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garkavtsev, I., Kozin, S.V., Chernova, O., Xu, L., Winkler, F., Brown, E., Barnett, G.H., Jain, R.K., 2004. The candidate tumour suppressor protein ING4 regulates brain tumour growth and angiogenesis. Nature 428, 328–332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, S.-L., 2012. Raman Spectroscopy and its Application in Nanostructures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Andrews, P.S., Timmis, J., Owens, N.D.L., Aickelin, U., Hart, E., Hone, A., Tyrrell, A.M. (Eds.), 2009. Artificial Immune Systems: 8th International Conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK, August 9-12, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Geller, B., 2006. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Police Department, in: Ivković, S.K., Haberfeld, M.R. (Eds.), Enhancing Police Integrity. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 83–109.

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. Genes Reveal How The Seahorse Got Its Snout And Became A Great Father [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genes-reveal-how-the-seahorse-got-its-snout-and-became-a-great-father/ (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, 1988. Paul G. Dembling (No. OP-6-OH). 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

Schroeder, S.K., 2017. Tau-Directed Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s Disease (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Kennedy, R., Davey, M., 2013. Detroit’s Creditors Eye Its Art Collection. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wu, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Geim and Grigorieva, 2013; Wu, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Geim and Grigorieva, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Garkavtsev et al., 2004)

About the journal

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