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. Check E. Journals tighten up on biosecurity. Nature. 2003;421:774.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Silberzahn R, Uhlmann EL. Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work. Nature. 2015;526:189–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Werlen G, Hausmann B, Palmer E. A motif in the alphabeta T-cell receptor controls positive selection by modulating ERK activity. Nature. 2000;406:422–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Choi M, Na K, Kim J, Sakamoto Y, Terasaki O, Ryoo R. Stable single-unit-cell nanosheets of zeolite MFI as active and long-lived catalysts. Nature. 2009;461:246–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Zhang PG, Chan T. The Chinese Yuan. 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Sainz MA. Modal Interval Analysis: New Tools for Numerical Information. Armengol J, Calm R, Herrero P, Jorba L, Vehi J, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Aguilar Chinea RM, Castilla Rodríguez I, Muñoz González RC. Hospital Resource Management. In: Merkuryev Y, Merkuryeva G, Piera MÀ, Guasch A, editors. Simulation-Based Case Studies in Logistics: Education and Applied Research. London: Springer; 2009. p. 65–84.

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. Iceland Is Drilling Four Kilometers Into A Volcano To Produce Clean Energy. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Direct Student Loans: Analyses of Borrowers’ Use of the Income Contingent Repayment Option. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Aug. Report No.: HEHS-97-155.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mahmud S. Comparing the Performance of Bottom-Moored and Unmanned Surface Vehicle Towed Passive Acoustic Monitoring Platforms for Marine Mammal Detections [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Times TNY. What Else Is on the Ballot in the U.S.? Minimum Wage, Death Penalty and Guns. New York Times. 2016 Oct 26;A18.

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)

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