How to format your references using the Molecular Cytogenetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Cytogenetics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Faist J. APPLIED PHYSICS: Smaller, Faster Midinfrared Lasers. Science. 2000;290:1713–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Forrest WF, Cavet G. Comment on “The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers.” Science. 2007;317:1500; author reply 1500.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee J, Gross SP, Lee J. Improved network community structure improves function prediction. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2197.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pray-Grant MG, Daniel JA, Schieltz D, Yates JR 3rd, Grant PA. Chd1 chromodomain links histone H3 methylation with SAGA- and SLIK-dependent acetylation. Nature. 2005;433:434–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Budisa N. Engineering the Genetic Code. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Hwang Y-S. A Mindfulness Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: New Directions in Research and Practice. 1st ed. 2015. Kearney P, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dolama MV, Rahbar AG. Performance Evaluation of the Number of Database Accesses in Cellular Networks. In: Özcan A, Chaki N, Nagamalai D, editors. Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Second International Conference, WiMo 2010, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 46–58.

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 Molecular Cytogenetics.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. New research suggests the most recent ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans has not yet been discovered [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-research-suggests-most-recent-ancestor-neanderthals-and-modern-humans-has-not/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Expenditures by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Relocation of Offices and Related Alterations to Buildings in Michoud, Lousiana. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Nov. Report No.: B-177038.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Young W. Diamagnetism of a supersonic rotating magnetized plasma [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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

1. Crow K. Go West, They Said. And So Should the 7 Train. New York Times. 2002 Feb 24;146.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Cytogenetics
Abbreviation	Mol. Cytogenet.
ISSN (online)	1755-8166
Scope	Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Biochemistry, medical Genetics(clinical)