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. Benovic JL. Structural biology: Arresting developments in receptor signalling. Nature. 2015;523:538–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Janssen C, Marcus RA. Does symmetry drive isotopic anomalies in ozone isotopomer formation? Science. 2001;294:951.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nalley K, Johnston SA, Kodadek T. Proteolytic turnover of the Gal4 transcription factor is not required for function in vivo. Nature. 2006;442:1054–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Spilianakis CG, Lalioti MD, Town T, Lee GR, Flavell RA. Interchromosomal associations between alternatively expressed loci. Nature. 2005;435:637–45.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sallaberry C. Geographical Information Retrieval in Textual Corpora. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Hershberg E, LeoGrande WM, editors. A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations: Social, Political, and Economic Implications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jones D. Dermal Fillers. In: Goldberg DJ, editor. Facial Rejuvenation: A Total Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 105–23.

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. Carpineti A. The Strongest Evidence That Black Holes Are Not Completely Black [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/the-strongest-evidence-that-black-holes-are-not-completely-black/

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. Contract Management: Few Competing Proposals for Large DOD Information Technology Orders. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-00-56.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nguyen MS. Solid families: Community-based program for pregnant and parenting adolescents [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Belson K. Coaxing Fire and Police Staffs in Arizona to Cut Own Pensions. New York Times. 2014 Aug 11;A11.

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)