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

Check, E., 2003. Biologists seek blueprint for international stem-cell effort. Nature 421, 102.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chapman, A., Wyndham, J., 2013. Human rights. A human right to science. Science 340, 1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Preusser, F., Radies, D., Matter, A., 2002. A 160,000-year record of dune development and atmospheric circulation in Southern Arabia. Science 296, 2018–2020.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, S., Tongay, S., Yue, Q., Li, Y., Li, B., Lu, F., 2014. High-performance few-layer Mo-doped ReSe₂ nanosheet photodetectors. Sci. Rep. 4, 5442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gilmore, R., Lefranc, M., 2011. The Topology of Chaos. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Lourenço, R., 2015. AIDA-CMK: Multi-Algorithm Optimization Kernel Applied to Analog IC Sizing, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Enficiaud, R., 2010. Queue and Priority Queue Based Algorithms for Computing the Quasi-distance Transform, in: Campilho, A., Kamel, M. (Eds.), Image Analysis and Recognition: 7th International Conference, ICIAR 2010, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010. Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 35–44.

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

Davis, J., 2017. Wolves Hunt Less When Living Alongside Bears [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wolves-hunt-less-when-living-alongside-bears/ (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, 2012. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Measuring Progress and Addressing Potential Privacy Concerns Would Facilitate Integration into the National Airspace System [Reissued on September 18, 2012] (No. GAO-12-981). 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

Currano, L.J., 2010. Latching microelectromechanical shock sensor systems: Design, modeling, and experiments (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Barron, J., 2017. A Manhattan Church Is Keen to Get Its ‘Lamb-Scaping’ Underway. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman and Wyndham, 2013; Check, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Chapman and Wyndham, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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